Historic Supreme Court Cases

Historic Supreme Court Cases


The major supreme court cases in the nineteenth century main focus was on enforcing the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. Whether the right was to freedom, voting, jobs, taxes, or property. The ideas that were behind the civil war were planted in the minds of many women and people of color through out this time period, thus producing many of the court cases that are talked about daily in many houses across the US. Almost all the questions presented in the major cases in U. S. history can be divided into three sub categories; discrimination (race/sex), money, and the power of individual states governments.
States are prohibited from violating the civil rights of its citizens by the fourteenth amendment. The Cherokee Nation (a native American tribe) took the state of Georgia to court in 1831 because Georgia enacted legislation suspending the Cherokee's government, annexing the lands, and thereby making the people in the nation "...