US Court Case Analysis

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Through the history of the United States there has been court cases and other choices that the government took and did not reflect what the United States constitution and Bill of Rights say and stand for. The U.S. Government has not be true to their own Constitution and Bill of Rights. In the court cases Schenck v. U.S. , Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu v. U.S the U.S. Government has disrespected and not reflected the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The U.S. did not respect the 1st amendment and limited it when it was used against them. Charles Schenck, who tried to hand out and mail flyers to American servicemen recently drafted to fight in World War I. Schenck's flyers said that the draft amounted to "involuntary servitude" proscribed …show more content…

Plessy) who refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was summoned to court before judge John H. Ferguson where mr. Plessy was fighting for his right to sit where he wants. The outcome of this case was the very controversial separate but equal doctrine. Separate but equal is racially segregated people but equal opportunity for all races. Sounds good right but in this case like many separate but equal, one race does not get equally treated because the jim crow cars are old and not meant for passengers. (History.com) It says in the constitution “All men are created equally” if that is so and the U.S. was following its own rules it would have all men treated equally no matter the color of his or her skin or ethnic background, And would not have separate but equal laws. Even A Justice saw and said this. "Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. ... The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution." (Justice John

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