Supreme Court Cases Concerning Constitutional Civil Libertie
The United States Supreme Court has often played a major role in expanding constitutional liberties in the United States. There was Plessy vs. Ferguson, where Homer Adolph Plessy, who was seven-eighths Caucasian, took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train and once he refused to move to the car for blacks, he was arrested. There was also New Jersey vs. T.L.O., who was a 14 year old girl, accused of smoking in the girls' bathroom in school. The principal at the school searched her purse, discovering a bag of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. The Supreme Court was to decide if the principle violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. During the decade of the 1960's, the Supreme Court had made many decisions that expanded individual rights. Two of some of the most popular cases, Tinker v. Des Moines School District and Mapp v. Ohio, dealt with the 1st , 4th , & 14th Amendments. In 1969, John Tinker, who was 15 years old, his sister Mary Beth Tinker, 13 years old, and Christopher Echardt, 16 years old, decided along with their parents to protest against U.S.
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