The Supremes

critiques of his jurisprudence from political contemporaries, and finally provide an opinion as to the impact his jurisprudence has contributions to American politics and political thought. Before John Marshall became the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and longest tenured chief justice in American history, John Marshall grew up in Virginia as the oldest of fifteen siblings. During his childhood he was homeschooled by his father and read William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws…

1896, a Supreme Court case called Plessy v. Ferguson made segregation legal as long as the facilities were equal (McBride). In the middle of the twentieth century, many people were working together to challenge these segregation laws. A man named Oliver Brown was one of the many people who challenged segregation laws when he brought the Topeka, Kansas school board to court. Brown v. Board of Education took place in 1954, and surprisingly, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. This Supreme…

presented to the Supreme Court the American people soon learned that Warren was a very liberal and revolutionary Supreme Court justice. Warren must have been a very convincing justice to have many case decisions go his way. This course was very good in showing how the atmosphere at the time was many a times in…

does not have more power than another. In our government, there is a hierarchy of power. Congress, the legislative branch, is the most powerful of the three, the president, executive branch, is next in the order of most powerful, finished by the Supreme Court, judicial branch. Their powers each lie in different areas and there is a great separation of power as the framers intended, however, there are some aspects in which these branches overlap and that is where the different amounts of power…

commissioning appointments but decided against the order once Thomas Jefferson took office. William Marbury filed a lawsuit against James Madison on the grounds that he was violating section thirteen of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which states: “The Supreme Court shall also have appellate jurisdiction from the circuit courts and courts of the several states, in the cases herein after specially provided for; and shall have power to issue writs of…

incarceration. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Charles Schenck in 1919, thus deeming the Espionage Act Constitutional. The precedent set by President Adams held firm 120 years in the…

Introduction In this paper, I will discuss the key facts, issues, and court holdings of the Fare v. Michael C. case. Discussion The Fare v. Michael C. case was heard before the United States Supreme Court in 1979, following an appeal referencing the Miranda Warnings issued to the juvenile defendant (Elrod & Ryder, 2014). At the time of the arrest in February 1976 in Van Nuys, California, the suspect, Michael C., was just over sixteen years old (FindLaw, n.d.) The suspect had a previous…

According to Katz (par. 3), the Supreme Tribunal joined the case together with the others and agreed to review them. The briefing was set to come to a close in April this year. The other lawsuits involved the Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan. The court advised the parties in the cases to present their arguments, according to the questions concerning the Amendment. The Obergefell’s lawsuit was mainly directed towards the violation of the Fourteenth Act. The oral arguments in the case were…

Branch, under Article 2 Section 2, to deal with all of the new laws that could be set in place. The Judicial Branch also leads the Supreme Court, the highest court of law in the United States. The Judicial Branch of government receives powers backed up by the U.S. Constitution, has a very strict and complex system to become a supreme court judge, and the U.S. Supreme Court Justices should interpret the Constitution by how it was originally wrote. Although the Judicial Branch has their own…

The Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee case is a Supreme Court case from 1816 that challenged appellate jurisdiction over state court decisions, specifically, the ability of the Supreme Court to hear and decide state cases where state court’s decided cases based on federal law. A British loyalist, Lord Fairfax, owned land in Virginia during the Revolutionary War when Virginia seized the land and gave a tract of it to David Hunter. Following the war, the United States entered into a treaty with Great…