In 1803, Murbury v. madison was the first supreme court case where the court asserted its authority for judicial review to strike down a law as unconstitutional. As of 2014, the united states supreme court has held 176 acts of the u.s. congress unconditional
There was 13 British colonies that existed in North America
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
The primary reason why the Soviet Union decided to formalize its East European alliance through the Warsaw Pact was because the US had done a similar thing in the west with NATO.