Marbury Vs Madison Case Analysis

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THE MOST IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS SINCE MARBURY V. MADISON BY: NICHOLAS M. KELLY
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Within this novel one is going to gain knowledge about major Supreme Court decisions that have had an impact on the court systems today. The cases we will look at take place after this historic case of Marbury V. Madison in which the United States Supreme Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. This set the tone for years to come on how the courts looked at cases and made their decisions. But now we take a deeper endeavor into some key cases after ruling on the Marbury V. Madison case.

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In 1892, Homer Plessy took a seat in a white’s only car of a Louisiana train. Plessy was also a majority white male. This lead to Plessy refusing to get up and go to the black’s only car, in which he was arrested …show more content…
One side said that the way Louisiana was segregating the races was unconstitutional and the other said that it was under the equal protection clauses. Which we can all infer that during this time the segregation of the races was all but fair. The train cars for black were not nearly as well kept up as the whites only cars. Plessy plea was that this was violating his 14th amendment but the court did not see it that way. They stated in a 7-1 ruling for the state that the states segregation laws were in accordance the constitution. The ruling was based on the separate but equal rule that let the states separate all facilities with white and black only areas. This “separate but equal” standard remained the standard for the U.S. until the major case of Brown V. Board of education, which we will also get to discussing.
This case to me actually made the separate but equal standard worse than it was. The school black children went to were nothing compared to where the whites went to school. They did not receive nearly as much of the funding that the whites did, giving the run down book and crappy supplies. How could the court say that the separate but equal standard was constitutional when there was nothing equal about it? The only thing true about that standard was the separate
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