Court Cases

             Issue: President Adams appointed several Federal Justices as "midnight appointments", President Madison did not want them and witheld their pay, one of the judges brought suit for back pay
             Signifigence: Set up the policy of Judicial Review
             Issue: New Hampshire was attempting to regulate Dartmouth college who claimed they couldn't because they had a royal charter
             Signifigence: Declared the sanctity of contracts
             Issue: A man was granted monopoly right for water transport in New York and went against another man granted monopoly rights by the US
             Decision: In favor of Gibbons (granted by US)
             Signifigence: Laws of congress are supreme (supercede states)
             Issue: Maryland attempted to tax the banks in its state (including the BUS)
             Significance: Congress had the right to a national bank due to the ellastic clause and the states could not interfere with a federal bank
             Issue: Munn had run a grain wharehouse yet didn't apply for a license of public wharehousing (had stated privately then started acquiring many peoples grain and became a public wharehouse)
             Significance: Government may regulate the manner in which citizens can use his or her property once it is used for the public good
             Issue: A slave brought suit claiming his freedom because he had resided in a free state for many years
             Decision: The Court rulled against Scott
             significance: The court not only rulled against Scott but claimed that slaves were property and the government could not regulate slavery at all
             Issue: Plessy was of mixed descent and paid for first class passage on a RailRoad in Louisiana, during the trip he took a while seat and was charged after refusing to leave
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