Much of the book consists of an agile account of the evolution of church-state relations, from the creation of the First Amendment to the 2003 Supreme Court ruling against a public display of the Ten Commandments.
Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) procedures and protocols have largely been standardised through the creation of, and amendments to, the INTERPOL DVI Guide.
Hallmarks of his administration included unprecedented economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act; Harrison facilitated the creation of the National Forests through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891.
In 1909, he was elected as Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico and participated in the creation of the Jones-Shafroth Act, proposing amendments before its final approval.
The most successful policy response to the banking crisis of the 1930s was the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which resulted from an amendment to the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933.
The Miranda warning was the creation of the Supreme Court as a way of enforcing the Fifth Amendment.
Black took an absolutist approach to First Amendment jurisprudence, believing the first words of the Amendment that said "Congress shall make no law... ...... Black rejected the creation of judicial tests for free speech standards, such as the tests for "clear and present danger", "bad tendency", "gravity of the evil," "reasonableness," or "balancing".
Since the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) with the Clean Air Act of 1970 (Clean Air Act Amendments 1970), understanding of the composition, sources, and effects of air pollution has greatly expanded.
The court has long upheld laws prohibiting child pornography, in the face of First Amendment challenges, because studies show that the creation of the images is "intrinsically related" to child sexual abuse.
