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.
During the 1960's, when America and the world, was in a state of change, many of the Supreme Court rulings tended to expand individual rights. Tinker v. Des Moines School District and Mapp v. Ohio expanded civil liberties by saying that state police, not only federal authorities, must have a search warrant. A decision also allowed students have the right to free speech as long as it does not create a material and substantial disruption of the educational process. Many Supreme Court rulings during the 1960's dealt with the plaintiffs winning their cases because they were protected by the Amendments. This reflected the changing times and expanded personal problems and liberties. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, and brushed aside the First Amendment issue and declared that "all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is, inadmissible in a state court," based on the 4th and 14th Amendments. Mapp had been convicted on the basis of illegally obtained evidence. The Court expanded the right to privacy by saying that state police, not
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