About landmarkcases.org
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. The "Resources" section features basic building blocks such as background summaries and excerpts of opinions that can be used in multiple ways. The "Activities" section contains a range of short activities and in-depth lessons that can be completed with students. While these activities are online, many of them can be adapted for use in a one-computer classroom or a classroom with no computer.

Depending upon the amount of time you have to teach the case, you may want to use one or more of the "Resources" or "Activities" in conjunction with one or more of the general teaching strategies. These general teaching strategies include moot court activities, political cartoon analysis, continuum exercises, and Web site evaluation.

Time constraints? Click here for Teaching Recommendations Based on Your Time.

Feel free to experiment with these materials!

Resources
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Diagram of How the Case Moved Through the Court System

 
Listen to the Oral Arguments
 
Key Excerpts from the Opinion
 
Full Text of the Opinion

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Activities
    The Case
What Secrets Are Protected Under Executive Privilege?
 
National Archives Lesson: Should the Special Prosecutor Indict Former President Nixon?

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    After the Case
Nixon's Views on Presidential Power: Excerpts from a 1977 Interview with David Frost
 
Through the Years: Comparing Impeachments in U.S. History

President Clinton: The President as Defendant

The Legacy of Watergate: RethLegal Ethics

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    Additional     Resources
The Washington Post's 25th Anniversary Web site for Watergate
 
CNN's All Politics Web site on Watergate
 
Primary and Secondary Source Background Materials on Watergate
 
Listen to the Nixon White House Tapes from the National Archives
 
Listen to and Read Transcripts of President Nixon's White House Tapes, Including the "Smoking Gun" Conversation
 
The History of the Watergate Scandal: An Internet Scavenger Hunt

Watergate Lesson Plan

Executive Privilege

The Starr Investigation and Continuing Reliance on United States v. Nixon

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