- Checks and Balances: A lighthearted look, through the use of political cartoons, at the separation of powers in the United States
- Code of Hammurabi: The first known legal code, created in 1750 B.C.
- Constitution Day - September 17: The U.S. Constitution, creating America's federal government, was signed by delegates to the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. Drafting the document had been difficult. Bitter disagreements still existed. Ratification by the states was far from certain. Learn the story and meet John Marshall - the Chief Justice who gave the U.S. Supreme Court the power of judicial review.
- Crown v William Penn: Before founding the Pennsylvania colony in America, William Penn was on trial for his life in London. An independent-thinking jury refused to follow a bad law and made history.
- Declaration of Arbroath: Scotland's 1320 Declaration of Independence from England
- Declaration of Independence: The early draft, handwritten changes by Ben Franklin and John Adams, the original Declaration, the record of the vote, and the story of the American colonies asserting their independence from Great Britain
- Doyle v Ireland: A father's fight to have custody of his children in 1955
- Florence Maybrick: In late 19th-century England, criminal defendants had no right of appeal. The trial of an American woman, Florence Maybrick, led to a change in the law.
- Joan of Arc's Trial: Twenty-five years after her unfair trial, the verdict was
renounced
- Magna Carta: The "Great Charter" of England which is Great Britain's Statute Number One
- Pentagon Papers: The U.S. Supreme Court allows the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish secret documents, leaked to the press, about the Vietnam War
- Proclamation of the Provisional Government: In 1916, the Irish Republic declared itself independent from Great Britain
- Prohibition: Alcoholic beverages (outlawed in America in 1920 after the 18th Amendment was passed) were permitted again when the 21st Amendment overturned the 18th