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religious schools,
220–222

Reno, Janet,
375
,
377

Republican Party,
16
,
85
,
160
n
,
169–170
,
187
,
262
,
393
,
395–399
,
401
,
456
,
see
also
Reconstruction Republicans
,

res judicata
,
210

Reynolds v. Sims
,
192–194
,
195–196
,
197
,
198
,
224–227
,
230
,
261
n
,
357
,
463
,
470

Rhode Island,
57
,
192
,
459

Rock v. Arkansas
,
106

Roe v. Wade
,
122–123
,
154
,
201
,
230
,
235
,
291–292

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
290–291

Roosevelt, Franklin,
290–291
,
414

    
and Supreme Court,
354

Roosevelt, Theodore,
391
,
401

“rule of necessity, the,”
18

Rule 22,
see
Senate, U.S.

Rutledge, John,
9
,
16
,
344

Sacramento, CA,
195n

St. Clair, Arthur,
338–339

Salazar, Ken,
379

Saturday Night Massacre,
377
,
see also
Watergate scandal

Saxbe fix,
378–379
,
381

Saxbe, William,
379

Scalia, Antonin,
23
,
134–135
,
231
,
375–377
,
448

Schmerber v. California
,
180–183
,
223

Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
455
,
471

Scott, Dred,
21
;
see also
Dred Scott v. Sanford

“Scottsboro boys,”
152

Second Amendment,
90–91
,
130
,
154
,
159–160
,
165–166
,
216
,
434–435

Second Reconstruction,
84
,
433
,
480

Second Treatise of Government
(Locke),
358

Securities and Exchange Commission,
409

Sedgwick, Theodore,
125
,
127

Selective Draft Law Cases
(1918),
92

Senate, U.S.,
197
,
see also
Congress and Clinton impeachment
,
372

    
filibuster system of,
63
,
198
,
357
,
361–367

    
and Johnson impeachment,
3–4

    
and Joint Resolution
15
,
453
,
455

    
and majority rule,
362

    
Manual of,
67

    
power of,
215
,
328–330

    
president pro tempore of,
4
,
5
,
6
,
16–17
,
19

    
Reconstruction era,
151
,
401

    
replacement of senators,
345–346

    
Rule
22
of,
361
,
364
,
368–369

    
special judicial oath of,
3–4

    
terms of senators,
350–351

    
and voting rights,
183

separation of powers,
6
,
219–220

Sentelle, David,
374
,
377

Seven Bishops Case
,
424

Seventeenth Amendment,
345
,
403
,
456

Seventh Amendment,
166
,
216
,
218
,
435

Seymour, Horatio,
400

Sherman, John,
4

Sherman, Roger,
253

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
4
,
262

Sixteenth Amendment,
84
,
401

Sixth Amendment,
108
,
153
,
182
,
216
,
435
,
442–443

    
and self-defense,
100–101

    
symmetry in,
111

    
and witnesses,
99

Skinner v. Oklahoma
,
483

slavery,
38
,
119
,
476
,
see also
Thirteenth Amendment

    
abolition of,
398

    
and Declaration of Independence,
254

    
and Northwest Ordinance,
250
,
258–259
,
261–262

    
and speech,
32–33
,
37
,
53
,
85
,
185

    
and three-fifths clause,
144
,
184–185
,
261
,
467–468

Slaughter-House Cases
(1873),
162

Souter, David,
441

South Carolina,
184

    
Constitution (1778) of,
76

Sprague, William,
4

Stamp Act protests,
424

stare decisis
,
210

Starr, Ken,
372
,
374–375
,
377

State Department,
67
,
320
,
384

states

    
and abortion rights,
122

    
and Bank of the U.S.,
23
,
30

    
constitutions of
75–76
,
158
,
463–473

    
and ex-post-facto laws,
9

    
and homosexuality,
122

    
and legalized marijuana,
23

    
powers of,
22
,
29–31
,
33

    
representation of,
4

    
sovereignty of,
27
,
29
,
31

Stevens, John Paul,
120–121
,
446

Stevens, Thaddeus,
147

Stewart, Potter,
333
,
345

Story, Joseph,
44
,
173
,
234
,
257

suffrage,
see
voting, voting rights

Sumner, Charles,
4
,
151

Supreme Court, U.S.,
9
,
18
,
22
,
83
,
85
,
101
,
106
,
429
,
473
,
see also
Warren Court

    
and chief justice,
5
,
7
,
11
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
357

    
compensation of,
13

    
and Congress,
197–198

    
and conscription,
92–93

    
and contraception,
117

    
and death penalty,
446–447

    
Eisenstadt v. Baird
and,
121

    
and exclusionary rule,
115
,
222–223

    
and evidence,
114

    
and impeachment,
43–44

    
and inferior courts,
69

    
and judicial free speech,
40–41

    
and judicial power,
8
,
101
,
206
,
208–211
,
213
,
217
,
228
,
230–233
,
239–241
,
312

    
Kelo v. City of New London
and,
132

    
and majority rule,
360–361

    
replacement and number of justices in,
343–344
,
353–356
,
413

    
and symmetry idea,
112

Swaine, John,
66

symmetry in constitutional principles,
58
,
111–112
,
149

Taft, William Howard,
16
,
379
,
401

Taiwan,
314

Taj Mahal,
245

Taney, Roger,
90
,
145
,
186
,
271

Taylor v. Louisiana
,
287–288

Teapot Dome scandal,
338

Tennessee,
4
,
192
,
224
,
229–230
,
324
n

    
and Fourteenth Amendment,
80

    
and Nineteenth Amendment,
402

Tenth Amendment,
158–159
,
165
,
252
,
370
n
,
434

Texas,
122
,
291–293
,
458

Texas v. Johnson
,
155

Third Amendment,
129–130
,
435

    
and lived rights,
117

Thirteenth Amendment,
86
,
145
,
262–263
,
274
,
286
,
398–399

Thompson, Charles,
66

Thoreau, Henry David,
483

Till, Emmett,
433
,
437
,
439

Tinker v. Des Moines
,
153

To Kill a Mockingbird
,
247

Tower of London,
177

Tracy, Spencer,
297

Treasury Department,
14
,
320
,
325
,
384

Tribe, Laurence,
122

Trumbull, Lyman,
262

Twelfth Amendment,
12
,
289
,
389
,
395–397
,
404
,
416

Twelve Angry Men
,
442

Twenty-fifth Amendment,
17
,
41
n
,
289
,
384
n
,
403–405
,
416
,
462

Twenty-fourth Amendment,
185
,
402
,
405–408
,
441

Twenty-second Amendment,
41
n
,
289
,
403
,
405
,
462

Twenty-sixth Amendment,
189
,
191
,
402
,
406
,
408
,
441

Twenty-third Amendment,
402

two-party system,
227
,
389
,
391–392
,
394
,
396
,
400
,
409–410
,
413–415

United Nations,
484

United Nations Security Council,
206

United States Reports
,
83
,
205
,
237
,
254
,
258

United States Sentencing Commission,
409

United States v. Ballin
,
364

United States v. Eichman
,
155

United States v. Hudson & Goodwin
,
319

United States v. Morrison
,
281
,
285

Utah,
295

Valley Forge,
27

Van Winkle, Peter,
4

vice president

    
and impeachment,
5–6
,
10–14

    
as president of the Senate,
6
,
7

Vietnam,
265

Violence Against Women Act,
281

Virginia,
7
,
21
,
53
,
58
,
85
,
134
,
160
,
258
,
262

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