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Justice Gorsuch and Native American Law

Run time: 1 hour


Native American law experts Marcia Zug and Timothy Sandefur discuss Justice Neil Gorsuch’s unique approach to Native American law by unpacking this term’s two major Native American law decisions, Haaland v. Brackeen and Arizona vs. Navajo Nation, as well as 2020’s McGirt v. Oklahoma. Listen now

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10 Facts About the Most Famous Scene in Legal History

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“The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot Monday afternoon on July 20, 1925. ...” Read more

A Birthday Tribute to the Founding Father of Gerrymandering

by NCC Staff | Read time: 4 minutes


“July 17 is the birthday of a Founding Father whose name you know today as part of a controversial political term. ...” Read more

More From the National Constitution Center

July 19, 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention Begins


In 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women’s issues. Stanton prepared a manifesto known as the Declaration of Sentiments—a rewriting of the Declaration of Independence—to draw attention to the inequalities and oppressive laws that women endured. Explore this online exhibit of The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote to see a rare printing of the Declaration of Sentiments.

Constitutional Text of the Week

Article I, Section 8


“The Congress shall have Power... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.


Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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