By: Samantha Zdesar
Protection of businesses from state government interference
“... [T]he descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves... are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secure to citizens of the United States.”
Slaughterhouse CasesCivil Rights Cases
Supreme Court decisions strengthened the economic role of big businesses.
Democracy and Civil Rights for the Unites States
Right to Privacy Protecting women’s abortion rights