03-07-2017, 10:14 AM
(03-07-2017, 09:56 AM)GMDino Wrote: I didn't use this one today as there was no joke.
90 years ago...62 years AFTER the Civil War...and the SCOTUS had to tell Texas that laws banning blacks from voting was unconstitutional.
Sad.
The law was passed in 1923.
One of the truths of our government is that our liberties/rights may be codified in the Constitution or in the USC, but they aren't really complete until the courts rule them as such. Selective incorporation is the name of the game. It wasn't until 1925 that the courts actually ruled that states must comply with the 14th Amendment at all, but that was only related to free speech. The 7th and 8th Amendments still aren't fully incorporated by the states to this day.
To keep with the theme of the thread, today in 1936 Hitler brook the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
