The Constitution Project: An Independent Judiciary
- Published:
- 2007
This film chronicles two key moments that defined our understanding of the role of the judiciary: the Cherokee Nation's struggles before the Supreme Court in the 1930s to preserve its homeland, and Cooper v. Aaron, the 1958 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states were bound to follow the Court's order to integrate their schools.
An Independent Judiciary features Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and some of the nation's leading Constitutional scholars. The film brings the concept of judicial independence to life for students with original animation and archival documents, portraits, paintings, photographs and footage.
This film is a project of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, produced by the Documentary Group of New York City and administered with the assistance of The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
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