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	Document Name	Date	Document Type
Select scaz5e_568.1	Waite, Morrison R.			Biography
Select scaz5e_im568.1	Waite, Morrison R.			Image
Select scaz5e_569.1	War Powers			Encyclopedia Entry
Select scaz5e_572.1	Warren, Earl			Biography
Select scaz5e_im572.1	Warren, Earl			Image
Select scaz5e_im469.1	Washington at the Constitutional Convention			Image
Select scaz5e_im574.1	Washington, Bushrod			Image
Select scaz5e_573.2	Washington, Bushrod			Biography
Select scaz5e_574.2	Wayne, James M.			Biography
Select scaz5e_im574.2	Wayne, James M.			Image
Select scaz5e_im575.1	Webster, Daniel			Image
Select scaz5e_575.1	Webster, Daniel			Biography
Select qwe60549	Were any members of Congress appointed directly to the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60567	What administrators, apart from the clerk and the marshal, work for the Supreme Court, and what do they do?			Q & A
Select qwh60605	What are checks and balances?			Q & A
Select qwh60510	What are the requirements for becoming a justice of the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60571	What are the solicitor general's responsibilities?			Q & A
Select qwh60506	What did the Supreme Court rule in Baker v. Carr?			Q & A
Select qwh60473	What did the Supreme Court rule in Barron v. Baltimore?			Q & A
Select qwh60496	What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?			Q & A
Select qwh60484	What did the Supreme Court rule in Buckley v. Valeo?			Q & A
Select qwh60470	What did the Supreme Court rule in Champion v. Ames?			Q & A
Select qwh60465	What did the Supreme Court rule in Chisholm v. Georgia?			Q & A
Select qwh60466	What did the Supreme Court rule in Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia?			Q & A
Select qwh60502	What did the Supreme Court rule in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health?			Q & A
Select qwh60468	What did the Supreme Court rule in Dartmouth College v. Woodward?			Q & A
Select qwh60489	What did the Supreme Court rule in Elkins v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60478	What did the Supreme Court rule in Engel v. Vitale?			Q & A
Select qwh60455	What did the Supreme Court rule in Ex parte Milligan?			Q & A
Select qwh60467	What did the Supreme Court rule in Fletcher v. Peck?			Q & A
Select qwh60469	What did the Supreme Court rule in Gibbons v. Ogden?			Q & A
Select qwh60491	What did the Supreme Court rule in Gideon v. Wainwright?			Q & A
Select qwh60482	What did the Supreme Court rule in Gitlow v. New York?			Q & A
Select qwh60507	What did the Supreme Court rule in Gray v. Sanders?			Q & A
Select qwh60498	What did the Supreme Court rule in Griggs v. Duke Power Company?			Q & A
Select qwh60501	What did the Supreme Court rule in Griswold v. Connecticut?			Q & A
Select qwh60497	What did the Supreme Court rule in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60461	What did the Supreme Court rule in Humphrey's Executor v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60462	What did the Supreme Court rule in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha?			Q & A
Select qwh60475	What did the Supreme Court rule in Lochner v. New York?			Q & A
Select qwh60490	What did the Supreme Court rule in Mapp v. Ohio?			Q & A
Select qwh60463	What did the Supreme Court rule in Marbury v. Madison?			Q & A
Select qwh60464	What did the Supreme Court rule in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee?			Q & A
Select qwh60460	What did the Supreme Court rule in McCulloch v. Maryland?			Q & A
Select qwh60492	What did the Supreme Court rule in Miranda v. Arizona?			Q & A
Select qwh60485	What did the Supreme Court rule in Near v. Minnesota?			Q & A
Select qwh60487	What did the Supreme Court rule in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?			Q & A
Select qwh60504	What did the Supreme Court rule in Planned Parenthood v. Casey?			Q & A
Select qwh60495	What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?			Q & A
Select qwh60476	What did the Supreme Court rule in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.?			Q & A
Select qwh60503	What did the Supreme Court rule in Roe v. Wade?			Q & A
Select qwh60486	What did the Supreme Court rule in Roth v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60472	What did the Supreme Court rule in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60481	What did the Supreme Court rule in Schenck v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60480	What did the Supreme Court rule in School District of Abington Township v. Schempp?			Q & A
Select qwh60494	What did the Supreme Court rule in Scott v. Sandford?			Q & A
Select qwh60471	What did the Supreme Court rule in Standard Oil Co. v. United States?			Q & A
Select qwh60499	What did the Supreme Court rule in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education?			Q & A
Select qwh60456	What did the Supreme Court rule in the Legal Tender Cases?			Q & A
Select qwh60488	What did the Supreme Court rule in the Scottsboro Cases?			Q & A
Select qwh60474	What did the Supreme Court rule in the Slaughterhouse Cases?			Q & A
Select qwh60483	What did the Supreme Court rule in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District?			Q & A
Select qwh60477	What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Butler?			Q & A
Select qwh60457	What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Miller?			Q & A
Select qwh60459	What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Nixon?			Q & A
Select qwh60493	What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Watson?			Q & A
Select qwh60500	What did the Supreme Court rule in University of California Regents v. Bakke?			Q & A
Select qwh60505	What did the Supreme Court rule in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services?			Q & A
Select qwh60479	What did the Supreme Court rule in Wisconsin v. Yoder?			Q & A
Select qwh60458	What did the Supreme Court rule in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer?			Q & A
Select qwh60568	What do law clerks do at the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60452	What does separate but equal mean?			Q & A
Select qwh60430	What does the chief justice of the Supreme Court do?			Q & A
Select qwh60565	What does the clerk of the Supreme Court do?			Q & A
Select qwh60566	What does the marshal of the Supreme Court do?			Q & A
Select qwh60421	What does the Supreme Court do if a case is moot?			Q & A
Select qwh60419	What does the Supreme Court do?			Q & A
Select qwh60433	What happens at the Supreme Court on the first Monday in October?			Q & A
Select qwh60443	What is a class action suit?			Q & A
Select qwh60454	What is a test case?			Q & A
Select qwh60439	What is affirmative action?			Q & A
Select qwh60440	What is amicus curiae?			Q & A
Select qwh60441	What is certiorari?			Q & A
Select qwh60444	What is common law?			Q & A
Select qwh60445	What is due process?			Q & A
Select qwh60448	What is judicial restraint?			Q & A
Select qwh60449	What is judicial review?			Q & A
Select qwh60451	What is probable cause?			Q & A
Select qwh60604	What is separation of powers?			Q & A
Select qwh60453	What is strict construction?			Q & A
Select qwh60446	What is the exclusionary rule?			Q & A
Select qwh60447	What is the incorporation doctrine?			Q & A
Select qwh60450	What is the preemption doctrine?			Q & A
Select qwh60512	What is the Supreme Court's oath of office?			Q & A
Select qwh60428	What Supreme Court decisions were overturned by amendments to the Constitution?			Q & A
Select qwh60423	What types of opinions does the Supreme Court issue?			Q & A
Select qwh60437	What was the Court-packing scheme?			Q & A
Select qwh60508	When did the justices of the Supreme Court serve?			Q & A
Select qwh60434	When did the Supreme Court first tape arguments, and what happens to the tapes?			Q & A
Select qwh60526	When was the longest time the Supreme Court went without a change in membership?			Q & A
Select qwh60425	Where can the opinions of the Supreme Court be found in printed form?			Q & A
Select qwh60519	Which chief justices of the Supreme Court were former associate justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60544	Which colleges graduated the most Supreme Court justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60528	Which full-term president did not appoint any Supreme Court justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60522	Which justice served longest on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60424	Which justice wrote the most of each type of Supreme Court opinion?			Q & A
Select qwh60545	Which law schools graduated the most Supreme Court justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60516	Which nominees to the Supreme Court have failed to be confirmed by the Senate?			Q & A
Select qwh60559	Which of the current justices once clerked on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60527	Which president appointed the most Supreme Court justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60543	Which states have produced the most Supreme Court justices?			Q & A
Select qwh60548	Which Supreme Court justice attended law school classes after being nominated to the Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60541	Which Supreme Court justice killed a person in peacetime?			Q & A
Select qwh60529	Which Supreme Court justice was confirmed the quickest?			Q & A
Select qwh60553	Which Supreme Court justices once served as solicitor general?			Q & A
Select qwh60518	Which Supreme Court nominee was rejected in the Senate by only one vote?			Q & A
Select scaz5e_576.1	White, Byron R.			Biography
Select scaz5e_im576.1	White, Byron R.			Image
Select scaz5e_im577.1	White, Edward D.			Image
Select scaz5e_576.3	White, Edward D.			Biography
Select scaz5e_577.2	Whittaker, Charles E.			Biography
Select scaz5e-1382-75451-2443666	Whittaker, Charles E.			Image
Select qwh60509	Who are considered the greatest justices of the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60570	Who can practice law before the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60517	Who declined to serve on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60561	Who has resigned or retired from the Supreme Court for reasons other than health, and why?			Q & A
Select qwh60569	Who hired the first Supreme Court law clerk?			Q & A
Select qwh60560	Who is the only Supreme Court justice to have played professional football?			Q & A
Select qwh60558	Who is the only Supreme Court justice who had no political or judicial experience before being nominated?			Q & A
Select qwh60523	Who served longest as chief justice of the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60524	Who served the shortest time on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60525	Who served two separate terms on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60533	Who was the first black Supreme Court justice?			Q & A
Select qwh60534	Who was the first Catholic Supreme Court justice?			Q & A
Select qwh60536	Who was the first Jewish Supreme Court justice?			Q & A
Select qwh60530	Who was the first Supreme Court nominee to testify before a Senate committee for confirmation?			Q & A
Select qwh60531	Who was the first woman Supreme Court justice?			Q & A
Select qwh60547	Who was the last Supreme Court justice never to have attended law school?			Q & A
Select qwh60546	Who was the last Supreme Court justice not to have a law degree?			Q & A
Select qwh60521	Who was the oldest justice to serve on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60538	Who was the only Supreme Court justice to be impeached?			Q & A
Select qwh60540	Who was the Supreme Court's "great dissenter"?			Q & A
Select qwh60520	Who was the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court?			Q & A
Select qwh60422	Who writes the Supreme Court's opinions?			Q & A
Select qwh60539	Who wrote the first dissent in a Supreme Court case?			Q & A
Select qwh60564	Whose departure from the Supreme Court caused the longest vacancy?			Q & A
Select scaz5e_im241.1	William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Cartoon			Image
Select scaz5e_im578.2	Wilson, James			Image
Select scaz5e_578.2	Wilson, James			Biography
Select scaz5e_579.1	Woodbury, Levi			Biography
Select scaz5e_im579.1	Woodbury, Levi			Image
Select scaz5e_im580.1	Woods, William B.			Image
Select scaz5e_580.1	Woods, William B.			Biography
Select scaz5e_580.3	Workload of the Court			Encyclopedia Entry
Select scaz5e_583.1	Writing Opinions			Encyclopedia Entry

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