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The Dissent And Its Change, Lee R. Hunt
The Dissent And Its Change, Lee R. Hunt
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Dissent and Its Change is a historical look at a few of the men who have had an important impact on the United States Supreme Court. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is best known for his many dissenting opinions while on the Supreme Court. He was one of the first Justices to give the dissenting opinion legitimacy and to make it into a powerful force that can change the law. Justice Holmes spent much of his thirty-year term on the Supreme Court dissenting against the use ofthe Fourteenth Amendment to invalidate laws passed by state and federal legislatures. In the …
Under The Cover Of Apathy: The Struggle For Equality In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Shannon Shea Peterson
Under The Cover Of Apathy: The Struggle For Equality In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Shannon Shea Peterson
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
In the years surrounding the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, many states passed Jim Crow laws to limit the rights of black citizens. Jim Crow laws and practices invaded nearly every facet of life in the South. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was no different. By the early twentieth century, it had a number of Jim Crow facilities and institutions, supported by custom and often times with the force of the law. At that time, Bowling Green was home to a thriving black community despite prejudice and inequality. Black children, for example, attended separate elementary schools in the …
One Lone Voice: John Marshall Harlah And The Constitutional Rights Of African Americans, Diana Jean Werkman
One Lone Voice: John Marshall Harlah And The Constitutional Rights Of African Americans, Diana Jean Werkman
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
John Marshall Harlan, a Kentuckian who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911, was often the only Justice who supported the civil and political rights of African Americans. His jurisprudence was interesting because it combined traditional elements of the Court's Gilded Age views and fundamental ideas of mid-twentieth-century judicial race philosophy. The events that reshaped Harian's race philosophy illustrate how he made the transition from slave owner to defender of individual rights. Significant to his judicial ideology was his interpretation of dual federalism and the intent of the framers of the Civil War Amendments. While the …