Legal-System-Weaponization

Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections

1873-04-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Supreme Court issues a 5-4 decision in the Slaughterhouse Cases, its first major interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, drastically narrowing the Privileges or Immunities Clause to exclude most individual rights. The ruling upholds Louisiana’s grant of a slaughterhouse monopoly to one …

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Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins

1868-07-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified after Louisiana and South Carolina provide the necessary three-fourths majority, extending citizenship and equal protection rights to formerly enslaved people. While designed to guarantee civil rights to Black Americans, the amendment’s broad …

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