Essay
Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights
Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution
The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...
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Minor v. Happersett
In Minor v. Happersett, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not extend to women.
Teaching Resource
The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment
Overview:
The Founding Fathers created the Supreme Court in Article III of the Constitution of the United States. The most influential role of the Court, however, was defined later through the appeal process, in cases involving the laws of state and local legislatures and Congress. Landmark cases such as Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and others, which were decided in the first decades of the nineteenth century, established the court’s power of judicial review. This gave the appointed...