Fiscal federalism is an economic framework for understanding the relationship among federal, state, and local governments that focuses on the division of spending and…
Signed on July 2, 1862, by President Lincoln, the Morrill Act of 1862 granted public lands to the states on the condition that the…
Formula grants, sometimes also called “state-administered grants,” are a method by which the federal government distributes more than $400 billion annually to state and…
In Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935), the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the National Recovery Act (NRA), the centerpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt’s…
The United States occupies an unusual position with respect to the death penalty. In its early history, the United States was at the forefront…
In 1986 Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) was nominated by President& Ronald Reagan to serve as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.…
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) was one of the Warren Court’s most controversial decisions in the field of criminal justice. The case centered on Ernesto…
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against…
ohn Marshall Harlan, the grandson of the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the same name, was born on May 20, 1899, in Chicago. A…
Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard M. Nixon, William H. Rehnquist served as associate justice from 1972 until 1986, when President…
The term “Black Codes” refers to bodies of laws passed by southern legislatures during the era of Presidential Reconstruction (1865–66) that sought to delineate…
John A. Bingham (1815–1900) was a Republican congressman from Ohio who served eight terms between 1855 and 1873, but with an interruption of two…
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