Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States handed down before 1900 that shaped judicial review, citizenship and equal protection, such as Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson. A ruling belongs here when its cited article gives a decision date before 1900. The group sits under the Judicial Decisions and Rulings subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by when each one was adopted or decided. Each member is placed on the strength of the article it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.
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Marbury v. Madison (Wikipedia)
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Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that established the principle of judicial review, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (Wikipedia)
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held that the United States Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
Plessy v. Ferguson (Wikipedia)
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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