United States Supreme Court Cases -- Wool 2024: Marbury V. Madison

Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances -- an approach that will best demonstrate to the public that the Constitution continues to serve us well.

Includes the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Social and Cultural Developments of the 1790s, the Louisiana Purchase, the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison, the struggles and renewal of the Iroquois Nation, the war of 1812, slavery and the Missouri Question, American Nationalism after the war of 1812, Jacksonian democracy, the rise of the two-part system, social currents and reforms of the Jacksonian era, the abolitionist movemente, life on a Southern plantation, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Annexation of Texas is part of Ameria's Manifest Destiny, the lasting significance of America's war with Mexico, Irish migration to America, Religious and Utopian movement of the 1840s, Seneca Falls Convention among other topics.