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Find Law: Article I: Habeas Corpus Suspension

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource discusses Article I of the U.S. Constitution and the suspension of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War. The links throughout the text lead to the footnotes at the bottom of the page.
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Find Law: Article Ii: Impeachment

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about Article II of the Constitution, which focuses on impeachment.
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Find Law: Article Iv: Penal Judgments: Types Entitled to Recognition

For Students 9th - 10th
Refers to Section I of Article IV that ascertains that judicial systems of states or countries are not responsible for enforcing the laws of another state or country.
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Find Law: Article V: Judicial Review

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the proposition that ratification of constitutional amendments is exclusively within the purview of Congress, either because of commitment or because the courts lack basic criteria of determination to pass on them.
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Find Law: Article Vi: National Duties of State Officers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about Article VI of the United States Constitution.
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Find Law: Supreme Court Justices: Anthony Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
Good summary of Justice Anthony Kennedy and his accomplishments. Includes a photo and links to other related articles.
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Find Law: Supreme Court Justices

For Students 9th - 10th
This site acts as a short introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Biographies and photos are available for current and past Justices of the Supreme Court through links on this site. From these links more in-depth bios are...
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Find Law: Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive information regarding several American constitutional issues such as: impeachment, war powers, interstate commerce, and the amendment process. Hyperlinks can be found throughout each constitutional issue to...
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Find Law: Founding Fathers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very brief description of three of the founding fathers of the Constitution: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington. The site provides links to further biographies of all three men as well as...
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Find Law: Supreme Court Decisions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site serves as an index to Supreme Court cases that have been decided during the current court term. The links to each case provide the information pertaining to that individual case.
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Find Law: Supreme Court Justices: John Jay

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of some of the Federalist Papers.
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Find Law: Supreme Court Justices: David Souter

For Students 9th - 10th
Good biographical site about Justice David H. Souter, summarizing his achievements and including links to other related articles.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection. Includes a lengthy list of annotations to the Amendment.
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Find Law: Article I: Congressional Qualifications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides text of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Section 2 of the article deals specifically with the qualifications needed to be a representative of the U.S. Congress. This site provides text as its worded in the...
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides the 19th Amendment and a short history of the women's suffrage movement state by state.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This source provides the Thirteenth Amendment as it is worded in the U.S. Constitution. At the bottom of the page are annotations with links to information about the abolition of slavery, origin and purpose of the amendment, peonage, and...
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Thirteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the Thirteenth Amendment - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude, which abolished slavery and forced servitude in the United States. Includes four annotations to the Amendment.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twelfth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource reviews the text of the Twelfth Amendment and related annotations.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twenty Second Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the text of the Twenty-second Amendment and explanatory annotations.
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Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)

For Students 9th - 10th
The city of Pawtucket, R. I., annually erects a Christmas display in a park owned by a nonprofit organization and located in the heart of the city's shopping district. The display includes, in addition to such objects as a Santa Claus...
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Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1955)

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of the Supreme Court's opinion in the 1955 Brown II case decision, which placed increased emphasis on implementing the 1954 Brown decision to desegregate public schools, thus overturning the 1896 decision in Plessy vs....
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twenty Fifth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of the twenty-fifth amendment as its worded in the U.S. Constitution. Annotations can be found at the bottom of the page along with a footnote.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Twenty Second Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text, as it is worded in the U.S. Constitution, of the Twenty-Second Amendment. Also provided are annotations of the amendment and a footnote at the bottom of the page.
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Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Sixteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a detailed overview of the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Content includes a focus on income tax, the history and purpose of the amendment, and the incomes subject to taxation.