Although Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution, the war did not technically end with the surrender of Cornwallis’ army. The British still held Savannah, Charleston, and New York. While a few minor skirmishes took place across the 13 states, the Patriot victory at Yorktown had convinced the British that the war […]
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During the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the major issues discussed have to do with the structure of the government. The major issue was how do you make sure that the people are represented in a democratic way and retain this principle of what we today would call states’ rights, that is to allow […]
By the time Roe v. Wade came down, she’d actually already had the baby, so the reason the case continued was because there was a desire both by litigants and by the Supreme Court to address the issue, not because it was a individual pressing case that someone brought. The first argument was in the […]
The term “Blaine Amendments” is a generic word that we use to refer to a number of state provisions that were put in constitutions in the 19th century that basically were about the same thing. These were all provisions, the purpose of which was to say public funds should not go to sectarian institutions. The […]
Without question, Roe v. Wade is one of the most controversial decisions. It’s a case, but it’s also a symbol. It’s the only Supreme Court case that most Americans can cite by name. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. Roe was interesting because it did articulate the right to abortion as […]
In a fair democracy everyone’s vote should count equally, but the method that the United States uses to elect its president, called the electoral college, violates this principle by making sure that some people’s votes are more equal than others. The Electoral College is, essentially, the 538 votes that determine who wins the presidency. If […]
bird for most of last hour if you are listening my my rant about uh… in my opinion the general insanity of the libertarian notion in fact we we spent the first fifteen minutes the for of the are debating matthew feeney from uh… reason magazine of the the general insanity of handing over to […]