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These resources from the award-winning PBS series The Supreme Court chart the Court’s unique evolution through archival footage, graphic techniques and interviews with legal historians and experts. Together, they help unfold complex legal concepts and key Constitutional issues. Explore the personalities and beliefs of individual Supreme Court justices as well as the dynamic social and political forces that have and continue to shape legal precedent in the United States.

In this Collection:

Balancing Federal and State Authority

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

The Fourteenth Amendment

Landmark Cases

The Power and Importance of Precedence

Lesson Plans

FDR and the Court

In this video from The Supreme Court, the Court reverses its practice of protectionism for big business to protect the worker.

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Major funding for The Supreme Court is provided by New York Life. Additional funding has been provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Funding for the Supreme Court Collection on VITAL/Teachers’ Domain is provided by the Booth Ferris Foundation.

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