This title has been replaced by By the People 7e, and its resources are no longer available for student purchase or redemption as of 17 Jul 2025. Anyone who purchased or redeemed access prior to 17 Jul 2025 can still access these resources for the duration of their original access period.
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Students from Florida question one of their Senators, Marco Rubio, at a Town Hall regarding gun control, campaign donations, and monetary influence in politics.
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Tom Lehrer protests Miller v. California, in which obscene speech was defined to include speech that arouses prurient interest without redeeming cultural value.
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A short video recapping the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville (and the criticism of it), as well as the counter-protest in response.
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President Roosevelt “warns” the American public who claims to believe in his social welfare agenda without truly supporting them in policy.
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The speaker questions the ability of blogs, and the internet more generally, to both provide information, but cautions against the underlying “dark side” of online participation to mobilize anger and dissatisfaction with little moderation.
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A 1961 LP of Ronald Regan arguing how government intervention in medicine (through a program like Medicare) might lead to a broader socialist movement across more realms of social policy.
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President Trump uses a 2018 interview with a friendly cable news channel, Fox News, to note the bias he perceives around news coverage of how his presidential administration has created policy.
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In one of the most controversial political ads of all time, the Johnson campaign uses a cute child counting to implicitly frighten voters into support with the threat of nuclear war.
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Essentially a full 1960 presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy is shown, illustrating the power of radio (which favored Nixon) and television (which favored Kennedy).
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Trump supporters at a Trump rally begin to shout “Build a Wall” as the then-candidate Trump discussed immigration policy at a campaign rally.
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Senator George Allen holds a small campaign rally event in 2006 in Virginia, derisively referring to an opponent’s staffer by an ethnic slang in front of his supporters.
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President Trump criticizes the postal rates that Amazon gets through the United States Postal Service.
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President Eisenhower justifies the need for the defense industry in an uncertain global world, but warns of the potential political influence such an industry could wield.
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A fictional filibuster from the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is shown, indicating a dramatized and unlikely back-and-forth debate as filibuster.
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President George W. Bush gives a speech at Ground Zero after the attacks on September 11, 2001, showing his role in foreign policy and in leading American public opinion.
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A panel of developers in San Francisco describe their application which trawls the Federal Register, a comprehensive log of the activities of the United States federal government.
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The lineage of the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson is described, specifically laying out how the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment had been twisted to permit “equality” by justifying “separate but equal” institutions.
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President Reagan delivers remarks in Berlin, suggesting the leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall as a symbol of increasing openness to the democracies of Western Europe and the United States.
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