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Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and thus did not enjoy the privaledges of the courts and Congress had not power to limit slavery in the territories.
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Outlawed slavery
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Tax on voting, kept poor and especially African Americans from voting
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Only whties could participate in the primary and thus disenfranchising African Americans
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Granted equal protection of the laws to all citizens
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Prohibited the prohibition of the right to vote based on race, ethnicity, or previous condition of servitude
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Upheld seperate but equal as justification for segregation by race.
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Gave woman the right to vote.
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Introduced in 1923, failed to get enough votes. Equal protection under the laws would not be abridged on account of sex.
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Seperate but equal not a valid justification for segregation in public schools
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Movement that gained momentum in the 1960s that would give preferential treatment to historically disadvantaged or disenfranchised minorities
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Outlawed the poll tax
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Outlawed discrimintation based on ethnicicty, religoius views, or gender.
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Prohibits discrimintion in voting, specifically race or color
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Laws cannot give preference to men in cases of inheritance
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Race can be used as a determining factor in college admissions but cannot be sole determining factor, as suppervised by strict judicial scrutiny.
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Upheld an anti-sodomy law, has since been reversed.
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Mandate that all public facilities must make reasonable accomadations for the disabled.
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Struck down the anti-somy ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick.
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Brought to courts in 2008, has not yet been decided. Case dealing with the University of Texas not obeying to the strict scrutiny standards set out in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
