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| 1803- doctrine of judicial review is established |
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| 1810 - upheld the validity of contracts (with reference to land grants) |
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| 1819- Congress could charter a bank under the "necessary and proper" clause of the constitution. |
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| 1824- the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce. |
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| 1857 Congress cannot prohibit slavery in the territories; blacks are not citizens. |
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| 1861- a person could not be denied of writ of habeas corpus if arrested; Lincoln maintained such denial was proper if public safety was threatened. |
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| 1866- military tribunals cannot try civilians, even during wartime in areas where civil courts are open. |
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| Munn v Illinois or the Granger Cases |
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| 1877- states may set rates for grain storage; private property dedicated to public use is subject to government regulation. |
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| 1896- announced the acceptance of the doctrine "seperate but equal" |
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| 1901- territories gained in the Spanish American War were no longer to be considered "foreign countries" but neither were they assumed to be a part of the US; as territories they were ruled by Congress. |
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| 1905- overturned a law limiting the number of hours a company may require a worker to work; said it infringed on the freedom of contracts. |
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| 1908- upheld an Oregon law limiting the # of hours women could be employed in industry; to safeguard their childbearing ability. |
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| 1919- freedom of speech may be curtailed if exercising that right posed a "clear and present danger" to others or to the state. |
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| 1914- upheld the 1942 removal of Japanese-Americans to relocation centers in inland camps; declared within the combined war powers of Congress. |
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| Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
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| 1954, 1955- overturned the "seperate bu equal" ruling in Plessy; mandated that segregated facilities be eliminated "with all deliberate speed." |
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| 1962- allowed the question of reapportionment to be brought up in federal courts. |
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