Reagan appreciated O’Connor’s moderate stance on divisive topics, and he seemed confident that her nomination would prevail over any objections raised by the conservative right.

The amendment came about due to the growing belief that it was unfair to force young men to fight in the Vietnam War when they couldn’t even vote for or against the elected leaders who put them there.

“We must replenish our supply of persons qualified to discharge the heavy responsibilities of the postwar world. We have taught our youth…

Some of Anthony’s critics insisted that her conviction reduced her to a common criminal – but in the end, her trial underscored the point that, as one newspaper put it, “She has voted, and the American Constitution has survived the shock.”

The Reapportionment Act of 1929 resolved the incumbency problem by giving state legislatures more latitude in creating district boundaries (read: gerrymandering).

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to revoke habeas corpus, the legal filing that gives an imprisoned person the right to challenge the legality of his or her detention before a court.

A man’s home may be his castle, but what about his backyard? Under the Fourth Amendment, a yard that adjoins a house…

No one could have guessed that, after just three years on the bench, Blackmun would pen the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade.

It was 85 years ago today that John Scopes, a high school math and science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested and…

While most African-Americans in the pre-Civil War era were slaves, there was also a growing population of free black citizens, some of…