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Young Readers Program with Dr. Allida Black
May 15, 2018 at 10:00am
Dr. Allida Black, research professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and the founding editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is the 2018 Young Readers Program speaker.
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The Flag Salute Case: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
These three 45-minute lessons for grade 11 United States History and Government focus on student analysis of a landmark Supreme Court decision that continues to set a precedent for the Court today.
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“If There Is Any Fixed Star,” Jackson on Barnette
Cass Sunstein, writing for Bloomberg View, June 1, 2015, stated, "If we had to preserve just one Supreme Court opinion to show some other civilization what American constitutional law is all about, I'd pick Jackson's prose poem in the Barnette Case."
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JACKSON CENTER EVENTS
This Day in Nuremberg
Direct Examination of Gisevius
He [the country lawyer] identified himself with the client's cause fully, sometimes too fully. He would fight the adverse party and fight his counsel, fight every hostile witness, and fight the court, fight public sentiment, fight any obstacle to his client's success. He never quit. He could think of motions for every purpose under the sun, and he made them all. He moved for new trials, he appealed; and if he lost out in the end, he joined the client at the tavern in damning the judge - which is the last right in closing an unsuccessful case, and I have officiated at many.
Robert H. Jackson. "The County Seat Lawyer" 36 ABAj 497