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Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Six amendments adopted by ...
Civil liberties in the United States are certain unalienable rights retained by (as opposed to privileges granted to) citizens of the United States under the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted and clarified by the Supreme Court of the United States and lower federal courts. [1]
Fairchild v. Hughes: 1922: Held that a New York resident (whose state had women's suffrage) lacked any particularized standing to challenge alleged state-level of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This was a landmark case, prior to this, private citizens were permitted to litigate public rights. 9 ...
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
United States v. Raines: 362 U.S. 17 (1960) Fifteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation: 362 U.S. 99 (1960) eminent domain over Indian lands Flora v. United States: 362 U.S. 145 (1960) Pay Income Tax Then Litigate, Internal Revenue Act Dusky v. United States: 362 U.S. 402 (1960) standard for ...
As the new Constitution took effect in practice, concerns about individual liberties and the concentration of power at the federal level, gave rise to the amendment of the Constitution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. However, this had little impact on judgements by the courts for the ...
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering ...
Watkins v. United States (1957) Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957) NAACP v. Alabama (1958) Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960) Shelton v. Tucker (1960) Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1963) Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund (1975) Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) In re Primus (1978) Roberts v. United ...