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Court. The United States Supreme Court’s authority is based on its power to interpret the
Constitution, explaining the laws when things are unclear. The Supreme Court has 9 judges.
They are appointed by the President and must be approved by the Senate. Judges are
appointed for life in order to decrease political interference in their decisions. Most of the
cases heard by the Supreme Court come to it from lower courts, appeals. The majority of
cases heard by the Supreme Court involve the Constitution, dispute between states and
other countries, and the United States Government. The United States Supreme Court has
played a major role in both expanding and limiting constitutional civil liberties in the United
States. There are diverse cases that are presented at Court each day. The following cases
both involve the Board of Education.
In 1954, the case of Brown Vs. Board of Education was brought to Court. In Topeka,
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resulted in expulsion and the student was considered illegally absent until readmitted. The test of legislation which
collides with the Fourteenth Amendment, because it also collides with the principles of the
First, is much more definite than the test when only the Fourteenth is involved.
The Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities are
inherently unequal and, therefore, violates the 14th Amendment to the United States
Constitution, which guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws. Before this ruling, children of this faith were threatened with expulsion or
expelled from school and sent to reformatories for juvenile delinquents, while their parents
were prosecuted for instigating delinquency. The power of judicial review
enables federal courts to review state laws and state court decisions to determine if they
are in keeping with the federal constitution.
The Fourteenth Amendment, as now applied to the states, protects the citizen
against the state itself and all of its creatures-Boards of Education not excepted.
The case reinstated the fact of the separation of Church and state. a black third-grader named Linda Brown had to walk one mile through a railroad
switchyard to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school
was only seven blocks away. As part of instituting a required program of teaching American
values, the state of West Virginia required both students and teachers to participate in
saluting the flag during exercises at the beginning of each school day. The United States Supreme
Court is very important and uses its best judgment on every case to ensure that justice is
Served. "
The Supreme Court's Brown v. The Supreme
Court uses its power of judicial review for all of its cases. Barnette expanded the constitutional civil liberty in
the United States of freedom of religion. Brown went to McKinley
Burnett, the head of Topeka's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) and asked for help.
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