Term Paper

Term Paper

Instructions. Suppose you are a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Choose one of the following cases discussed in Roosevelt. Read the majority opinion and write your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with the doctrine the majority uses.

(Hint: Remember justices are not legislators, they argue about the law, not about whether they favor or oppose the issue in the case. In other words, you should express reasoned interpretation of the doctrine not personal preference for a particular policy.)

Please seek assistance.

Cases:

  1. Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. 386 (1798)
  2. Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
  3. Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873)
  4. Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880)
  5. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S 537 (1896)
  6. Lochner v. New York,198 U.S.45 (1905)
  7. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 301 U.S. 1 (1937)
  8. Hirabayashi v. U.S., 320 U.S. 81 (1943)
  9. Korematsu v. U.S., 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
  10. Ex parte Endo, 323 U.S. 283 (1944)
  11. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
  12. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
  13. Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
  14. Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)
  15. Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 434 (1972)
  16. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
  17. Regents v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
  18. Bowers v. Hardwick,478 U.S. 186 (1986)
  19. Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957 (1991)
  20. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
  21. Lopez v. U.S., 514 U.S. 549 (1995)
  22. Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), Scalia dissent
  23. Kimel v. Florida Bd. of Regents, 528 U.S. 62 (2000)
  24. U.S. v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 528 (2000)
  25. Dickerson v. U.S., 530 U.S. 428 (2000)
  26. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000)
  27. Bd. of Trustees v. Garrett, 531 U.S. 356 (2001)
  28. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)
  29. Zellman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002)
  30. Nevada Dept of Human Resources v. Hibbs, 538 U.S. 721 (2003)
  31. Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003)
  32. McConnell v. FCC, 540 U.S. 93 (2003)
  33. Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004)
  34. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 547 (2004)
  35. Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005)
  36. Kelo v. New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)

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