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Index of Khan resources on required documents and Supreme Court cases

This list links to videos, articles, and additional resources for the 9 required primary documents and 15 required Supreme Court cases for the AP United States Government and Politics course and exam.
For more context on these documents, see the US Government and Politics course on Khan Academy.

Required primary documents

1. The Declaration of Independence (full text, article, video)
2. The Articles of Confederation (full text, article, video)
3. The Constitution of the United States (full text, brief video, deep dive video)
4. Federalist No. 10 (full text, video part 1, video part 2)
5. Brutus No. 1 (full text, video)
6. Federalist No. 51 (full text, article, video)
7. Federalist No. 70 (full text, video)
8. Federalist No. 78 (full text, article)
9. Letter from a Birmingham Jail (full text, video)

Required Supreme Court cases

1. Marbury v. Madison (1803) (deep dive video)
2. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (brief video, deep dive video, article)
3. Schenck v. United States (1919) (article)
4. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) (deep dive video)
5. Baker v. Carr (1961) (deep dive video)
6. Engel v. Vitale (1962) (article)
7. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) (article)
8. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) (article)
9. New York Times Company v. United States (1971) (article)
10. Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) (article)
11. Roe v. Wade (1973) (deep dive video)
12. Shaw v. Reno (1993) (article)
13. United States v. Lopez (1995) (videoarticle)
14. McDonald v. Chicago (2010) (deep dive video)
15. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) (brief video, deep dive video)

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