Fourteenth Amendment
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Women in Law: 1953-1969
ArticleHow a small but growing number of women pursued law careers and advocated before the Supreme Court
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William J. Brennan Jr.
Life StoryThe first-generation American who served as an Army Colonel in World War II, became a reform-minded New Jersey judge, and was a consensus builder on the Supreme Court
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed birthright citizenship as a protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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United States v. Cruikshank
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that limited the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and weakened enforcement of federal Reconstruction policies.
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Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate
ArticleBefore he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.
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Stephen J. Field
Life StoryA bold and adventurous attorney who ventured to California for the gold rush before his jurisprudence laid the foundation for laissez-faire constitutionalism during his service as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Samuel Freeman Miller
Life StoryThe frontier physician and self-taught lawyer who helped shape the interpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments as an Associate Justice on the post-Civil War Supreme Court.
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Rights, Commerce, and Reform
EraThe end of Reconstruction and the start of Industrialization led to a 50-year era where the Supreme Court addressed constitutional questions about rights, commerce, and reform.
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Muller v. Oregon
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that upheld a gender-based state labor law and set forth a legal distinction between men and women in the workplace.
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Melville W. Fuller
Life StoryThe Maine-born attorney who guided the Supreme Court through industrialization preserved judicial harmony as Chief Justice .
