Government Chapters

Governments can be constitutional monarchies, dictatorships, federal republics, parliamentary democracies, constitutional republics. More than a system of rules and regulations, they help civilized people to live together peacefully. These stories explore different forms of government.

The US threatens a shipping quarantine, while Russia will not allow US inspectors to board their ships.

FDR wants the Supreme Court to agree with all his social policies, so he proposes increasing the number of Justices. Cartoonists bring this court-pack...

Framers of the Constitution debate how much power federal courts should have.

A split Electoral College vote delays Jefferson from being named president, allowing John Adams to appoint many judges in the last hours of his Presid...

Chapter 4

Sir Francis Drake sets old ships on fire to send towards the enemy; the Spanish panic, and the ensuing Battle of Gravelines uses up ammunition on both...

In today's society, the right to worship as one sees fit is law.

A bad lawyer and an insane judge doom the results of Florie's murder trial and sentence.

Florie is sentenced to hang, but after a public outcry against , Queen Victoria intervenes. Flories sentence is changed from death to 15 years in pri...

Charged with capital murder, Florence Maybrick endures a mistake-laden trial.

Governments ration food and many other items during both world wars.

Differences over treatment of China put Japan and America at odds.

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