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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
United States Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer talk about the Constitution with high school students. They discuss why we have and need a constitution, what federalism is, how implicit and explicit rights are defined and how separation of powers ensures that no one branch of government obtains too much power.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2006, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor fielded questions from 50 high school students from the Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas. The students and justices discussed the significance of the judiciary and the ways that independence is protected by the Constitution.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Why the nation's framers created the constitution. The protection of individual rights; highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The seperation of powers; examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over steel mills during the Korean War.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"These three 20- minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual rights by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Three 20- minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual rights by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over steel...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
2007-0531 This documentary begins by introducing the Constitution and why it was created. It then examines key Constitutional concepts -- separation of powers and individual rights -- by focusing on two landmark cases: Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to put the steel mills under government control, and Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court establishes the right to be represented by an attorney.
Language
English
Description
The first disc "Conversations on the Constitution" features Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and high school students from across the US discussing landmark Supreme Court cases and Constitutional concepts; three Japanese internment cases; the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and judicial interpretation. The second disc, "The Constitution Project Documentaries,"...
Series
Language
English
Description
"Disc 1. Freedom of speech: Amid the turmoil of the 1960s, students decided to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, igniting a legal battle that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), which defined students' right to free speech in school. This conversation focuses on free speech in light of Tinker and the Morse v. Frederick (2007) case. Jury Service: This conversation...
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