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That we are all created equal. lincoln elevated the declaration of independence, one of a singular contributions, when he said four score and seven years ago, he was going back to the declaration, not the constitution. he was going back to the mistaken, not to the compromise manual to make concessions to the slave power. that commitment was essential. >> let me express my intense jealousy that i was not at your democracys on it. ta-nehisi coates -- a few people there. i covered my presence at th...

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The filibuster is only one part of the larger problem of the capture of America’s political institutions by an unrepresentative minority.

Every day, we are inundated with the names of people from the past. When you see an advertisement selling insurance for Lincoln Financial Group, drive down a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, or read a book review in the Washington Examiner, you see recognizable names that call to mind stories associated with these historical figures. These titles serve as small monuments to their accomplishments and ask us to remember them.

Roe sowed the seeds of a crisis that will end with America ceasing to be divided: we will become all one thing or all the other.

So it is absolutely shameful. i mean those were strong words by chief justice roberts about how the court is not upholding its constitutional duty to make sure that these rights are not violated. >> i mean sotomayor compared it -- the logic here, she invokes john c. calhoun, one of the great villains of american history, the sort of intellectual force behind the confederacy and the slave power, who before the civil war writes an anonymous pamphlet essentially laying out a legal theory that state...

Invokes john c. calhoun, one of the great villains of american history that sort of intellectual force behind the confederacy and the slave power, who before the civil war writes wars, writes an anonymous pamphlet essentially laying out theory that states can nullify federal law and in her opinion, says, this looks like nullification. we have a constitutional protected right to abortion in this country, this state says we came up with a clever way to nullify it and this court is going to okay it...

Results of the presidential election of 1856, won by James Buchanan with 174 electoral votes

Results of the presidential election of 1856, won by James Buchanan with 174 electoral votes

Many people who came of age in the 1950s and 60s view the Supreme Court as a force for good when it comes to race. But the court has often been the most anti-progressive branch of the federal government.