Executive Order 10730: Little Rock Nine Themes
Choices
Everyone has to make choices: agree or disagree, protest or accept, Coke or Pepsi. Eisenhower's executive order was a direct response to those who chose not to follow a federal law. He used the wor...
Justice and Judgment
The heart of the Brown decision and Eisenhower's obligation to enforce it is the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: "No State shall […] deny to any person within its jurisdictio...
Presidential Power
It's a glorious thing to be a Pirate King. But being president isn't too bad, either. Sure, you've got Congress and that annoying checks-and-balances thing to deal with, but if you just want someth...