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| Frage | Antworten |
| 14th Amendment | One Of the Civil war amendments : Defined US Citizenship and Guarantees " Equal protection under the laws |
| De Jure segregation | segregation establish by law . For Example Jim Crow & the Supreme Court Decision In Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Jim Crow law | Segregation Laws in the south |
| Original Jurisdiction | Authority of a court to hear a case for the 1sst time |
| Appellate Jurisdiction | The authority of a court to hear a case APPEALED from a lower court |
| Legal Brief | a written document explaining the position of one side or other in a case |
| Majority opinion | a statement that presents the views of the majority of the supreme court justices a regarding a case |
| Dissenting opinion | a statement written by a supreme court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting his or her own opinion |
| stare decisis | princple followef by judges and the supreme court , a latin term that means "last yesterday decision stand " |
| precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a letter , similar case |
| Due process of law | Fair and equal treatment in a court of law |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | (1857) case of a slave named Dred Scott . The supreme courtb ruled that enslaved african american were property , not citizens |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | (1896) cause about homer plessy , a black man , who purchased a ticket t ride in the whites only railroad car in louisiana |
| Brown v. Board Of education of topeka kansas | (1954) banned segregation in public schools |
| Briggs V. Elliot | (1954) case that challenged segregated school in clarendon country , south carolina |
| Korematsu v. United States (1944) | During WWII Japanese american citizens living on the west coast were moved to internment camps |
| University of California Bakke | (1978) supreme court case on affirmative action |
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