Law and Politics Documents

Benjamin Franklin came through for America when he negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France on February 6, 1778.

The trial of Florence Maybrick was widely covered by the newspapers of the day.  This image depicts one such article.  It was published by T...

On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused a...

Amendment XIII to the U.S. Constitution - Slavery Abolished as a Legal Institution in AmericaSection 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, e...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides equal protection under the law. It makes former slaves U.S. citizens and also provides due proces...

The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African-American men—including former slaves who had become U.S. citizens via the 14th Amend...

When Congress passed a resolution giving African-American men the right to vote, via the 15th Amendment, suffragists were extremely upset that the wor...

The part of America's Constitution which addresses the federal judiciary is located in "Article III."  That is why federal trial-court judges - s...

The "Committee of Detail," headed by Edmund Randolph, worked in secret as they pulled-together the ideas of delegates attending America's Constitution...

This top-secret, now-declassified document - written by Lyman Lemnitzer (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) on 10 April 1962 - urges the Kennedy A...

This image depicts the second page of a top-secret, now-declassified document - written by Lyman Lemnitzer (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) on ...

The Versailles Treaty imposed harsh terms on Germany.  Effectively demilitarizing the country, to prevent another world war from developing, thi...