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

2. Judicial Review

3. 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

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

5. How an Amendment becomes a law

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. When Amendments are repealed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
21st Amendment repealed it in 1933
Show them the pretzal

9. Kahoot!
What do you remember??