Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a “War on Poverty” in 1964 that took form in an omnibus poverty bill (S. 2642) that was enacted…
Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
In Dunn v. Blumstein (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Tennessee’s durational residency requirement to vote. The law required a one-year residency in…
Privileges and Immunities Clause: Fourteenth Amendment
Article IV of the Constitution contains the phrase “The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in…
Edwards v. California (1941)
In Edwards v. California (1941), the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated California’s “anti-Okie” law, which had made it a crime to bring an indigent person, who was not a…
Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
Necessary and Proper Clause
Article I, Section 8, provides, “The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for…
Layer Cake Federalism
While there has been little argument that the United States operates in a federal system—one where the powers of government are divided between the…
Hartford Convention
The Hartford Convention, a gathering of New England Federalists held from December 15, 1814, to January 4, 1815, was the product of hostilities between the two…
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)
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Diversity of Citizenship Jurisdiction
Article III, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution provides that the judicial power of the United States shall extend to controversies “between citizen of…
Direct Election of Senators
See Seventeenth Amendment
Home Rule
Also referred to as local control, community autonomy, and self-governance, home rule is the principle that local governments in the American federal system should…
Munn vs. Illinois
Munn v. State of Illinois was the leading late nineteenth century precedent discussing the scope of state police powers under the federal constitution. State…
