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 Brown
v. Board of Education, which
was decided May 17, 1954, ruled that segregated
schools were inherently unconstitutional under
the equal protection of the laws provision of the
Fourteenth Amendment. |
 In Marbury
vs Madison, which was decided
February 24, 1803, the Supreme Court stated that the Constitution gives it
the final authority to determine which laws are
constitutional and which are not. |
 McCulloch
vs Maryland On March 6, 1819,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress has
"implied powers" in addition to those
specified in the Constitution and that federal
laws are superior to conflicting state laws. |
 Lutie
Lytle became the third
African-American woman to be licensed to practice
law in the United States in 1897. That same year
she became the only black female to be practicing
law in the United States, after the first two
died. |
 Oliver
Ellsworth was one of the proponents
of a two-house Congress, and was chairman of the
committee that organized the federal judiciary.
He became the second Chief Justice in 1796, and
served in that capacity until resigning for
health reasons in 1800. |
 The Nuremberg
Trials were a series of 13 trials
held in Nuremberg, Germany, from 1945 to 1949. In
these trials, leaders of Nazi Germany were tried
for crimes against international law, including
causing World War II deliberately, waging
aggressive wars of conquest, and persecution of
Jews. |
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