To: Repeal The 17th
Has the supreme court ever overturned itself?Plessy v. Ferguson being overturned by Brown v. Board of Education comes to mind.
7 posted on
02/04/2015 3:17:10 PM PST by
chajin
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To: chajin
Thank you.
I had to go do some reading on that.
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a US Supreme Court decision
that upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring
racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), is a US Supreme Court decision
that determined segregation in public education was unconstitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson was never overturned by the Supreme Court.
But, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited legal segregation
and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provided for federal oversight
and enforcement of voter registration voting.
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(yeah, it is from wikipedia, but that's all I've got.)
17 posted on
02/04/2015 3:38:38 PM PST by
Repeal The 17th
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