PPT-Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case 1896

Separate But Equal Power point created by Robert L Martinez Primary Content The Americans In 1892 Homer Plessy took a seat in the whites only car of a train and refused to move He was arrested and convicted for breaking Louisianas segregation law. Shigenori Matsui. University of British Columbia . Faculty of Law. June 14, 2008. ASPAC conference at University of Victoria. 2. Introduction. The Japanese Constitution was enacted on November 3, 1946 and took effect on May 3, 1947.. v. Ferguson. and. Brown V. Board of Education. A history of the constitutionality of segregation in the United States. Christine . Glacken. . Essential Questions. What is the historical significance of…???. Business Law – Chapter 1 . Sources of Law. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 . Police arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave a railroad car that prohibited “colored” people. Under Louisiana law, Plessy was “colored” because he was one-eighth black. The Court ruled that the race-based “Jim Crow” laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the states proffered separate but equal treatment.. Marbury v. Madison. Tesneem Galgal . IT 2010. Assignment 11. overview. . The U.S. Supreme Court. The Election of 1800. Marbury v. Madison. The Courts Ruling. Consequences of Marbury v. Madison. . the u.S. Supreme court. American Government. The Court. The . Supreme Court . is the ultimate court of the land. There are 9 judges that make up the Supreme Court. These Justices then hold their positions for life. Justices hold their positions for as long as they do so that they can avoid being entangled in political games, therefore allowing them to focus on the Constitutionality of laws. Continued. American Government. Activism v. Restraint. The Supreme Court has the potential to have a massive effect on public policy . Courts can be considered to be activist or restrained depending on the outcome of the case. Project. 1. . . Groups. - Three (3) students per group. Each group . will get . three (3) separate cases. Each person is expected to do one case. . Students are placed into groups for time saving purposes. They do not have to work together.. Unit 4: Institutions. The Supreme Court in Action…. To help you contextualize what the court does and how influential they are on our daily lives…. The Supreme Court Landmark Rulings. I. Background . Cases. Marbury. v. Madison. President John Adams appointed John Marshall as the new . Chief Justice . of the Supreme Court and . William Marbury . as . Justice . of Peace for . Washington, D.C. before he his term in office was over.. SC Social Studies Standard. 8-5.4. : Summarize the policies and actions of South . Carolina’s . political leadership in implementing . discriminatory . laws that established a system of . racial . The Function of the Supreme Court. Lesson . 1 Selecting Cases at the Supreme Court. The . Court’s . primary. function . is to resolve disputes that arise over the meaning of federal law and the US Constitution. . In 1892 Homer . Plessy. , who was classified as an African American, was arrested, out on trial and found guilty of violating state law. Why? He refused to move from the 1. st. class carriage of a train (for which he had bought a ticket) to the ‘. 14. th. Amendment. 14. th. Amendment. The 14th Amendment.  to the Constitution was . ratified on July 9, . 1868. .. G. ranted . citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” . (1896). Everything You Need To . K. now . A. bout Plessy v. Ferguson To Succeed In APUSH. www.Apushreview.com. Key Ideas Before The Case. Reconstruction Amendments:. 13. th. Amendment. Abolished slavery.