POLSCI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Civil Rights Cases, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Equal Protection Clause
22 Oct 2018
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Go back to first lecture on reconstruction. What"s the relationship between the court and party building. Judicial power is contingent upon a lot of factors. 1874 (cruikshank), 1876 (republicans lose control of house (not. Presidency) and court gives very skeletal opinion to preserve their legitimacy (they"re worried democrats won"t enforce their rulings)), The court is less willing to publish pro-voting rights material when it appears that republicans will lose all control of the government, but the moment that they know that the republicans have the. Presidency, the court (same chief) is willing to write a prosecute a violent klansmen and lays out explicit details about the violence happening in the south. The court is powerful but in what ways. About private individual or owner excludes blacks. Lawyers for the klan went after state neglect. First instance that the courts have to safely respond to the klan. Traditional view says that the decision guts the 13th amendment.
