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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/law-jan-june03-courthistory by Admit 1/1/03 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/law-jan-june03-courthistory by Admit 1/1/03 PBS NEWS] | ||
A simple definition of the chief justice, perhaps, but the road to defining the modern Supreme Court as the pinnacle of the American justice system has been a hard-fought and controversial journey. | A simple definition of the chief justice, perhaps, but the road to defining the modern Supreme Court as the pinnacle of the American justice system has been a hard-fought and controversial journey. | ||
=====Conscience and the Constitution===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/conscience-and-the-constitution/ by Frank Abe ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
In 1944, 63 young men stood trial for resisting the draft at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Seven leaders were accused of conspiring to encourage them. The dissidents served two years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the popular history of Japanese America. | |||
