Brief Overview Of The 13 Major Court Cases

Anika Rusche

Mr. Smith & Mr. Persuad

Social Studies

8 June 2023

The Thirteen Major Court Cases

There are 13 major Supreme Court cases that have occurred which led the United States to how it is now. If our judges chose the other side of the argument would our world be different now? More Than 200 years ago our Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published a series of essays prodding the ratification of the United States Federalist Papers now known as the Constitution. The Federalist Party came about around 1789 - 1790 as a group of businessmen who supported the same cause. This led to the U.S. Constitution and our National Laws. Our Laws hold the core values of the Nation and how the people in the Nation should

They can relate to businesses, education, safety, housing, food, public speech, environmental rights, etc. The laws could restrict us from doing things and keep us safe. How different would our world be now if we didn't have these laws, and how would we keep the nation from crumbling?

There are thirteen court cases that had an impact on the United States. The first case was Marbury v. Madison then it led to Fletcher v. Peck, McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, Worcester v. Georgia, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Slaughterhouse Case, U.S. v. Cruickshank, U.S. v. Reese, Munn v. Illinois, and Plessy v. Ferguson.

The first case, Marbury v. Madison, was held in 1803 as a John Marshall case. Chief Justice John Marshall established the judicial review. Information can be cited in

Infobase Learning - Login, online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/2?articleId=358306&q=+Marbury+v.+Madison. Accessed 1 June

Commonwealth v. Hunt was used in American law in which the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the common law doctrine of criminal conspiracy did not apply to labor and the decision was made by Lemuel Shaw. Only 15 years after the court case Dred Scott v. Stanford was held. in 1857 Roger B. Taney was presented with a case of slavery. An enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Scott were sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. Stanford owned Dred Scott, but later on, Stanford passed down ownership to his daughter who later moved to a Northern State where Slavery/owning of others was illegal. Stanford's daughter goes to the Supreme Court where Roger Taney runs the case and allows her to bring her slave as property. Although the North wasn't happy they couldn't do much as the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments didn't say you were free to do anything nor free to do nothing. This information can be found