Can Courts End Partisan Gerrymandering?

Run time: 58 minutes

Misha Tseytlin and Guy-Uriel Charles address the latest developments in crucial gerrymandering cases after the North Carolina Supreme Court agreed to re-hear a case that found the state’s redistricting maps unconstitutional under the state’s constitution. Listen now

The Constitutional Role of the State Solicitor General

Run time: 56 minutes

Dan Schweitzer, Lindsay See, and Barbara Underwood explore the history of the office of the solicitor general, the role of state solicitors in litigating cases before the Supreme Court, and some of the landmark cases they have litigated. Watch now

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Redcoats in the House? Some Myths Behind the Third Amendment

by NCC Staff | Read time: 4 minutes

“Could British troops evict colonists from their homes, eat their food and use their facilities? That’s not exactly true, even though generations of students have heard that story in relation to the Third Amendment. ...” Read more

Patrick Henry’s Most Famous Quote

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry signaled the coming revolution when he spoke at a Virginia convention and allegedly implored: ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’...” Read more

The 19th Amendment: Women Fight for Rights (1848-1877) 

Experience the first section of The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote in this Google Arts and Culture online exhibit. The first installment of a three-part series discovers how the early women’s suffrage movement formed and later divided over race and tactics after the Civil War. Trace the movement through the Reconstruction era, as women experimented with new strategies to secure the ballot.

The 14th Amendment

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Read interpretations on the Interactive Constitution

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