Landmark Case
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The Cherokee Nation Cases
Significant CaseThe lawsuits that forced the examination of the relationship between law and politics, particularly with respect to the Supreme Court’s ability to enforce its judgment during the early years of the Republic.
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Fletcher v. Peck
Significant CaseThe first time the Supreme Court declared a state law unconstitutional and a formative decision interpreting the Commerce Clause.
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Brown as the Beginning
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional and led to wider civil rights victories in the 1960s.
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Barron v. Baltimore
Significant CaseJohn Marshall’s last opinion which addressed the existing parameters of federalism in relation to the states.
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Affirming Judicial Independence
EraThrough a series of landmark decisions, the Justices of the Marshall Court affirmed the judicial independence of the federal courts, the authority of the Supreme Court, and ensured that the Judicial Branch was an equal branch of the federal government.
