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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-supreme-court/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-supreme-court/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
In A People’s History of the Supreme Court, Peter Irons chronicles the decisions that have influenced virtually every aspect of U.S. society, from the debates over judicial power to rulings in the past regarding slavery, racial segregation, and abortion, as well as cases about school prayer, the Bush/Gore election results, and “enemy combatants.” [Publisher’s description.] | In A People’s History of the Supreme Court, Peter Irons chronicles the decisions that have influenced virtually every aspect of U.S. society, from the debates over judicial power to rulings in the past regarding slavery, racial segregation, and abortion, as well as cases about school prayer, the Bush/Gore election results, and “enemy combatants.” [Publisher’s description.] | ||
=====It’s Constitution Day! Time to Teach Obedience or History?===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/its-constitution-day-time-to-teach-obedience-or-history/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 14/9/12] | |||
Pearson-Prentice Hall’s high school textbook, United States History, opens its chapter on the Constitution with this Daniel Webster quote: “We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land — not, perhaps, the sun and stars. | |||
