{"id":836,"date":"2025-11-20T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:18:49","slug":"final-paper-topics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/final-paper-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Paper Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some possible topics for a 10- to 12-page narrative paper that analyzes an amendment, landmark Supreme Court case or major constitutional crisis between the period 1876 to 1976 that resulted in a practical change to the US Constitution:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Amendments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sixteenth (1913) &#8211;Federal income tax<\/li>\n<li>Seventeenth (1913) &#8211;Election of US senators<\/li>\n<li>Eighteenth (1918) &#8211;Prohibition<\/li>\n<li>Nineteenth (1920) &#8211;Women&#8217;s suffrage<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth (1933) &#8211;Lame duck period reduced<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-First (1933) &#8211;Repeal of Prohibition<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Second (1951) &#8211;Two term limit<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Third (1961) &#8211;DC electoral votes<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Fourth (1964) &#8211;Federal poll tax<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Fifth (1967) &#8211;presidential succession<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Sixth (1971) &#8211;18-year-old voting<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-Seventh (1992) &#8211;Congressional pay raises<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Landmark Cases<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>US v. Cruikshank<\/em> (1876)<\/li>\n<li><em>US v. Reese<\/em> (1876)<\/li>\n<li><em>Civil Rights Cases<\/em> (1883)<\/li>\n<li><em>Plessy v. Ferguson<\/em> (1896)<\/li>\n<li><em>US v. Wong Kim Ark<\/em> (1898)<\/li>\n<li><em>Insular Cases<\/em> (1901)<\/li>\n<li><em>Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock\u00a0<\/em>(1903)<\/li>\n<li><em>Giles v. Harris<\/em> (1903)<\/li>\n<li><em>Lochner v. New York<\/em> (1905)<\/li>\n<li><em>Muller v. Oregon<\/em> (1908)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bailey v. Alabama<\/em> (1908)<\/li>\n<li><em>Schenck v. US<\/em> (1919)<\/li>\n<li><em>Debs v. US<\/em> (1919)<\/li>\n<li><em>Abrams v. US<\/em> (1919)<\/li>\n<li><em> US v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp\u00a0<\/em>(1936)<\/li>\n<li><em>NLRB v. Jones &amp; Laughlin Steel Corp<\/em> (1937)<\/li>\n<li><em>US v. Miller<\/em> (1939)<\/li>\n<li><em>Sweatt v. Painter<\/em> (1950)<\/li>\n<li><em>McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents<\/em> (1950)<\/li>\n<li><em>Dennis v. US<\/em> (1951)<\/li>\n<li><em> Youngstown Sheet &amp; Tube Co. v. Sawyer\u00a0<\/em>(1952)<\/li>\n<li><em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> (1954)<\/li>\n<li><em>Brown v. Board of Education II<\/em> (1955)<\/li>\n<li><em>Gayle v. Browder<\/em> (1956)<\/li>\n<li><em>Yates v. US<\/em> (1957)<\/li>\n<li><em>Cooper v. Aaron<\/em> (1958)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mapp v. Ohio<\/em> (1961)<\/li>\n<li><em>Baker v. Carr<\/em> (1962)<\/li>\n<li><em>Engel v. Vitale<\/em> (1962)<\/li>\n<li><em>Gideon v. Wainwright<\/em> (1963)<\/li>\n<li><em>Abington School District v. Schempp<\/em> (1963)<\/li>\n<li><em>New York Times v. Sullivan<\/em> (1964)<\/li>\n<li><em>Reynolds v. Sims<\/em> (1964)<\/li>\n<li><em>Escobedo v. Illinois<\/em> (1964)<\/li>\n<li><em>Miranda v. Arizona<\/em> (1966)<\/li>\n<li><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> (1967)<\/li>\n<li><em>Furman v. George<\/em> (1972)<\/li>\n<li><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n<li><em>San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n<li><em>Miller v. California<\/em> (1973)<\/li>\n<li><em>US v. Nixon<\/em> (1974)<\/li>\n<li><em>Buckley v. Valeo<\/em> (1976)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Constitutional Crisis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917-18)<\/li>\n<li>FDR Third Term (1940)<\/li>\n<li>Japanese internment (1942-45)<\/li>\n<li>NSC-68 (1950)<\/li>\n<li>War Powers Act (1973)<\/li>\n<li>Nixon impeachment (1974)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some possible topics for a 10- to 12-page narrative paper that analyzes an amendment, landmark Supreme Court case or major constitutional crisis between the period 1876 to 1976 that resulted in a practical change to the US Constitution: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/final-paper-topics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-836","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211constitution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}