Happy 800th to the Magna Carta!!!!!! Why is the document important? What is the relevance today?

Judicial Review

What does Judicial Review Mean? The ability for the Judicial branch to review actions of the legislative and executive branch to ensure they are constitutional Part of the Checks and Balances

When was it challenged? Maybury v. Madison Background of the case Result – upheld Judicial Review

How an Amendment becomes a law

Examples of landmark Supreme Court Cases Dred Scott v. Sanford Later overturned in the 14th Amendment The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted. However, when the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, it ruled that Scott would remain a slave because as such he was not a citizen and could not legally sue in the federal courts. Moreover, in the words of Chief Justice Roger Taney, black people free or slave could never become U. S. citizens and they “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The dissenting justices pointed out that in some states people of color were already considered citizens when the Constitution was ratified. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all those born in the United States, regardless of color.

Examples of Landmark Court Cases Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) Plessey sat in the White Section on a train in Louisiana The Court ruled “Separate but equal” and upheld segregation Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Linda Brown tried to go to an all white school in Topeka Kansas and was rejected “Separate but Equal” was overturned as unconstitutional Just because it was overturned…Segregation still continued. Especially in the South. Rosa Parks story in 1955.

When Amendments are repealed 18th Amendment said “No Alcohol produced or sold” (1920) Massive resistance around the country as a result Speak-Easies Sprang up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CE4u6jI_rc 21st Amendment repealed it in 1933 Show them the pretzal

Kahoot! What do you remember??