The U.S. Constitution
Since 1789 the United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the land. Learn about its contents and ratification, and the subsequent debates about its proper interpretation.
Key Topics:
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- Three-Fifths Compromise
- United States Constitution
- Supremacy Clause
- Preamble to the United States Constitution
- The Federalist Papers
- United States Bill of Rights
- First Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Marbury v. Madison
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Brown v. Board of Education
Recommended Reading
- We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States - David Catrow
- Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement - Michael J. Klarman
- Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform - Derrick Bell
- The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) - Alexander Hamilton
- All You Want to Know About the United States Constitution: The Constitutional Convention and the Ratification... - Knowledge Products
- The Gettysburgh Address and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America - Sam Fink
- Marbury V. Madison: The New Supreme Court Gets More Power (Life in the New American Nation) - Ryan P. Randolph
The Three-Fifths Compromise, Black Personhood, and Southern Representation
As a compromise between northern and southern delegates, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person towards Congressional representation.
ERAS:
Pre-Contact - Colonial - Revolutionary - Antebellum - Civil War - Gilded Age - Depression/World War II - Modern
PEOPLE:
American Indian - Anglo/Scottish - Black - Hispanic - Women - Asian - LGBT - Irish - Jewish - Children
