Native Americans and the Supreme Court

Run time: 58 minutes

In celebration of Native American History Month, Keith Richotte Jr. and Matthew L.M. Fletcher join Jeffrey Rosen to explore how Native American law has evolved from the Marshall Court to the present day, tracing how the Court came to grant the federal government broad authority over tribal affairs, and how tribes have begun to reassert their sovereignty under the Roberts Court. Listen on We the People or Watch on America’s Town Hall

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FDR’s Third-term Election and the 22nd Amendment

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On November 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office—an unprecedented act that would be barred by a constitutional amendment a decade later. ...” Read more

How Americans Fought to Restore Veterans Day to November 11

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3

 minutes

“It has been an American tradition to honor our military on the traditional time of 11:11 a.m. on November 11. But there was a time when Congress tried to move the holiday, only to face several years of strong public resistance. ...” Read more

Commemorate Veterans Day

In honor of Veterans Day, see this ladder badge, on display in Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality, that belonged to a veteran of the U.S. Colored Troops. Learn more

Credit: Courtesy of Angelo Scarlato  

Article III

“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” 

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