The Supreme Court

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When, why, and how did the Supreme Court get the final say in the law of the land? The question of the Court's role, and whether its decisions should reign above all the other branches of government, has been hotly debated for centuries. And that's resulted in a Supreme Court more powerful than anything the Founding Fathers could have imagined possible.

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0:00.0	There is with a two-hole pitch.
0:10.0	Now this ball smashed high and deep to center field.
0:14.0	It is won!
0:16.0	This ball is driven to right.
0:19.0	Is it fair?
0:21.0	It is a home run!
0:26.0	When I was growing up, I remember my dad having this strange
0:29.0	love of baseball.
0:34.0	He was new to this country.
0:36.0	Everything about it was foreign to him.
0:40.0	Different food, different languages, different politics,
0:45.0	but baseball, that made sense.
0:48.0	There is a drive to right center field by Piazza.
0:51.0	His first major league hit.
0:53.0	He will go into second.
0:55.0	He didn't know all the rules necessarily.
0:57.0	But he got the basing just of it.
0:59.0	One person throws the ball, the other tries to hit it.
1:02.0	And the person behind the plate, behind the catcher.
1:06.0	The person calling the strikes are balls.
1:09.0	That's the umpire.
1:13.0	The arbiter of justice.
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