The Chinese People Have Stood Up
Opening address by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. September 21, 1949. Excerpted from the UCLA […]
Memorandum on Covert Action in the Congo
National Security Council, Intelligence Files, Congo, 1960–1965. Secret. The memorandum was prepared for the Special Group meeting on October 27, 1960. U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations […]
Address Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Gerald R. Ford, Address in Helsinki Before the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/256556 Mr. Chairman, my […]
Speech before Meeting of Voters in the Stalin Electoral District
Joseph Stalin. Speech Delivered by J.V. Stalin at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow. Pamphlet Collection, J. Stalin, Speeches Delivered at Meetings of Voters of the […]
Martin Luther King Explains his Disagreement with Malcolm X
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/publications/autobiography-martin-luther-king-jr/chapter-25-malcolm-x Below, King explains his view of Malcolm X. In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would […]
Executive Order 12612
Source: Ronald Reagan, Executive Order 12612—Federalism, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251147. By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and laws […]
South Dakota v. Dole
Source: 483 U.S. 203, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/483/203. Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner South Dakota permits persons 19 years of age or older to purchase beer containing up […]
State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights
Source: Justice William J. Brennan, “State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights,” Harvard Law Review 90, no. 3 (1977): 489–504, https://doi.org/10.2307/1340334. … Over the past two decades, decisions of […]
Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs
Source: Richard Nixon, Address to the Nation on Domestic Programs, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/239998. As you know, I returned last Sunday night from […]
Introduction to an Essay on Robert H. Jackson’s Influence on Federal-State Relationships
Source: Charles S. Desmond, Paul A. Freund, Justice Potter Stewart, and Lord Shawcross, Mr. Justice Jackson: Four Lectures in His Honor (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 58–60, https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/mr-justice-jackson/. … […]