West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937) is usually taken to mark the end of substantive due process and the liberty of contract notion…
See Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965) considered a challenge to Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision in effect substitutes the attainment…
In Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a Pennsylvania law requiring aliens to register with state authorities because the federal Alien…
Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956) overturned the conviction of Steve Nelson, an avowed Communist who had been convicted for violating Pennsylvania’s antisedition statute. According to Chief…
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) is a landmark Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut statute that forbade the use…
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See Incorportation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
See Incorportation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
While the Tenth Amendment provides states, or the people, reserved powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution or prohibited by it…
In Furman v. Georgia (1971), the Supreme Court declared that existing state death penalty statutes were unconstitutional because they allowed too much discretion in sentencing. According to the Court, arbitrary…
The so-called Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, Article IV, Section 2, states, “No person held to Service or Labour in one State, under…
The case of Texas v. White (1869) is particularly important because in it the Supreme Court, speaking through Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, gave…
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