the constitution to life than by telling the human stories behind great supreme court cases. >> fred korematsuoldly opposed the forced internment of japanese americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation, mr. korematsu took his case all the way to the supreme court. >> quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took are quite unpopular. >> if you had to pick one freedom that was the most essential to the functioning of a democracy, it has to be freedom of speech. >> let's go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. >> landmark cases, an exploration of 12 historic supreme court decisions and the human stories behind them. a new series on c-span produced in cooperation with the national constitution center debuting monday, october 5th, at 9:00 p.m. as a companion to our new series, "landmark cases" the book. it features the 12 cases with a brief introduction in the back

. >> fred korematsu boldly opposed the forced internment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation , he took his case all the way to the supreme court. >> quite often and are most famous decisions are ones that the court to that were quite unpopular. >> if you had to pick one freedom that was the most essential to the functioning of the democracy it has to be freedom of speech. >> it's go through three cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. >> landmark cases and expiration of 12 historic supreme court decisions and human stories behind them. a new series on c-span produced in cooperation with the national constitution center, debuting monday october 5 at 9:00 p.m.. and as a companion to our new series landmark cases the book features the 12 cases we have selected for the series with a brief introduction into the background, highlights and impact of each case written by veteran

. >> fred korematsu boldly opposed the forced internment of japanese americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation, mr. korematsu took his case all the way to the supreme court. >> quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took were quite unpopular. >> if you had to pick one freedom that was the most essential to the functioning of democracy, it has to be freedom of speech. >> let's go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. >> landmark cases. an exploration of 12 historic supreme court decisions and the human stories behind them. a new series on c-span produced in cooperation with the national constitution center, debuting monday, october 5th at 9:00 p.m. . and as a companion, "landmark cases" the book. it features the 12 cases we selected with introduction to the background, highlights and impact of each case. written by tony mauro, published by c-span.

bring constitutional life them by telling the human stories behind great supreme court cases >> fred korematsuboldly opposed enforced internment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for relocation mr. korematsu took his case all the way the supreme court. >> quite often or most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. >> if you had to pay -- pick one that was the most essential to the functioning of democracy it has to be freedom of speech. >> let's go through a few cases that illustrate or medically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. >> landmark cases, an exploration of 12 historic supreme court decisions and the human stories behind them. a new series on c-span produced in cooperation with the national constitution center debuting monday october 5 at 9:00 p.m.. and as a companion tour series landmark cases the book features the 12 cases we have selected for the series with a brief introduction into t