Luther v. Borden (1849)
In 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to apply Article IV, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees states a “republican form of government,” to a…
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
This 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case dealt with the controversy over the legally permissible scope of state and local government regulatory land-use power under…
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
This 1992 U.S. Supreme Court case addresses the question of what constitutes the proper exercise of state and local government regulation over land use…
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937) is usually taken to mark the end of substantive due process and the liberty of contract notion…
Livingston, William S.
William Samuel Livingston (July 1, 1920 – August 15, 2013) was a political science professor at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1949 until…
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
During the summer and fall of 1858 as they contested for a Senate seat across Illinois, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas conducted a…
Morality Policy
Morality policy is any policy that seeks to use the coercive power of government to impose or legitimize one set of fundamental values or…
Three-fifths Compromise
The “three-fifths compromise” refers to the agreement among the framers of the U.S. Constitution that produced the opening sentence of Article I, Section 2,…
Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Created on July 10, 1953, by Congress at the urging of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (better known as the…
Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
Suzette Kelo provoked a national controversy over land use when she filed a lawsuit challenging New London, Connecticut’s effort to condemn her home in…
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965)
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965) considered a challenge to Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision in effect substitutes the attainment…
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
In January 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced a bill to organize and open to white settlement the huge Nebraska territory west of…
