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  2. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    United States, the United States Court of Appeals overturned the lower court's decisions, defined Syrians as white, and affirmed Dow's right to naturalization. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] However, this decision did not apply to North Africans or non-Levantine Arabs, and some courts claimed that only Syrians (and not other Arab persons) were white.

  3. Supremacy Clause - Wikipedia

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    Virginia, 19 U.S. 264 (1821), the Supreme Court held that the Supremacy Clause and the judicial power granted in Article III give the Supreme Court the ultimate power to review state court decisions involving issues arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States. Therefore, the Supreme Court has the final say in matters involving ...

  4. Dred Scott v. Sandford - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case on the citizenship of African-Americans 1857 United States Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 11–14, 1856 Reargued December 15–18, 1856 Decided March 6, 1857 Full case name Dred Scott v. John F. A ...

  5. Constitutional law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Early in its history, in Marbury v.Madison (1803) and Fletcher v. Peck (1810), the Supreme Court of the United States declared that the judicial power granted to it by Article III of the United States Constitution included the power of judicial review, to consider challenges to the constitutionality of a State or Federal law.

  6. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment reversed the conditional clause to read: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." This was applied by the Supreme Court in the 1898 case United States v.

  7. US Supreme Court rules on Moore v. Harper case. Here ... - AOL

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    What did the US Supreme Court decide? The U.S. Supreme Court opined in a 6-3 decision that the “independent state legislature theory” floated by North Carolina Republicans is incorrect and ...

  8. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    The United States Supreme Court discussed the plain meaning rule in Caminetti v. United States, [24] reasoning "[i]t is elementary that the meaning of a statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain ... the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms." And ...

  9. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the court's opinion this morning, alternating between amusement and disapproval as he killed "Bob Richards." The US Supreme Court rules unanimously in a “curious ...