High and low fat diets
Rita Kachikyan
US Government
Unit 5
12/4/13
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,1954 A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. The Court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In modern discourse, the justices are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal philosophies of law and of judicial interpretation. Each justice has one vote, and while many cases are decided unanimously, many of the highest profile cases often expose ideological beliefs that track with those philosophical or political categories. One of the many cases that the Supreme Court discuss is Brown v. Education of Topeka in 1954. Probably no 20th century Supreme Court decision so deeply stirred and changed life in the United States as Brown. Linda Brown lived only seven blocks from a school for white children, but by law she was required to attend a school for black children twenty-one blocks away. Linda's parents thought she should be able to attend the neighborhood school. Therefore they took the school board to court, with the help of the NAACP. In arguing the case before the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall presented evidence that separate schools had a harmful effect on both black and white children. Black children were made to feel inferior to whites, he argued, while white children learned to feel superior to African American children. Therefore, Marshall concluded," separate but equal" schools could never be qual. All of the justices on the Supreme Court were convinced by Marshall's reasoning. The Court agreed that segregation of African Americans creates "a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Separate educational facilities, the Court ruled, were "inherently, unequal" and therefore violated
US Government
Unit 5
12/4/13
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,1954 A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. The Court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In modern discourse, the justices are often categorized as having conservative, moderate, or liberal philosophies of law and of judicial interpretation. Each justice has one vote, and while many cases are decided unanimously, many of the highest profile cases often expose ideological beliefs that track with those philosophical or political categories. One of the many cases that the Supreme Court discuss is Brown v. Education of Topeka in 1954. Probably no 20th century Supreme Court decision so deeply stirred and changed life in the United States as Brown. Linda Brown lived only seven blocks from a school for white children, but by law she was required to attend a school for black children twenty-one blocks away. Linda's parents thought she should be able to attend the neighborhood school. Therefore they took the school board to court, with the help of the NAACP. In arguing the case before the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall presented evidence that separate schools had a harmful effect on both black and white children. Black children were made to feel inferior to whites, he argued, while white children learned to feel superior to African American children. Therefore, Marshall concluded," separate but equal" schools could never be qual. All of the justices on the Supreme Court were convinced by Marshall's reasoning. The Court agreed that segregation of African Americans creates "a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Separate educational facilities, the Court ruled, were "inherently, unequal" and therefore violated