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Acts, Doctrines, & Documents
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18th Century
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Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Judiciary Act (1789)
19th Century
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Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Compromise of 1850
Dawes Act (1887)
Homestead Act (1862)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Morrill Act (1862)
Pendleton Act (1883)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
20th Century
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Civil Rights Act (1964)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Social Security Act (1935)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
21st Century
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Affordable Care Act (2010)
Doctrines
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Bush Doctrine (2002)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Documents
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The Articles of Confederation
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The Federalist Papers
The US Constitution
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The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom
Government Sources
Supreme Court Cases
19th Century
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Marbury v. Madison (1803)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
20th Century
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Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Brown v. Board of Education (1955)
Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Regents of the U. of California v. Bakke (1978)
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
21st Century
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Bush v. Gore (2000)
Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
Glossip v. Gross (2015)
King v. Burwell (2015)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)
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