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Saluting the flag: A matter of speech and religious liberty

Supreme Court: A right to refuse to salute the flag?

The Supreme Court and religion: Entering the maze

Brown and racial equality in public education

Earl Warren: Finding “The Notion of Equality”

Plessy v. Ferguson: An infamous landmark ruling

Without Freedom of the Press: Life behind an Iron Curtain

Supreme Court rules on secrecy v. public’s right to know

The Pentagon Papers case and the right to know

The Sullivan decision: Affirming the right to criticize government

NY Times v. Sullivan saves freedom of the press

The Abrams Dissent: New Life for Freedom of Speech

Justice Holmes’ changing conceptions of free speech

Clinton v. Jones, presidential immunity and Donald Trump

McCulloch v. Maryland: Why we have implied powers

Cooper v. Aaron: Striking down nullification, again

Landmark decisions: Why federal courts possess authority over states

Federalist 78: Foundation for Marbury v. Madison

Marbury v. Madison: The greatest of landmark decisions

Executive Privilege: Flimsy historical defenses

The Preamble tells our constitutional creation story

Article V: Amendments to Create a “More Perfect Union”

The right to privacy and the road to Roe v. Wade

Through the mists of time: Origins of the right to privacy

John Marshall and the Need for Judicial Transparency

American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the War Clause

Congressional term limits: Light from the 22nd Amendment

“Ratifying the Constitution: Democracy in Action”

To regulate in the last resort

Nullification: Old wine in new bottles

Personalizing the Constitution

Holmes’ defense of Freedom of Speech

What does a coup look like?

Foreign affairs powers

A case for ‘malice toward none, charity for all’

Originalism and Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Government’s powers limited by constitution