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Constitutional HistoryThe Learning Institute for Elders (“LIFE”) at

the University of Central Florida

January 8, 2013

© 2011 Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. All Rights Reserved

By: Richard S. Dellinger, Esq.,[email protected]

Orlando, Florida | www.lowndes-law.com

Constitutional History


Pre-European America


Early Iroquois Nation


Later Iroquois Nation


Recognition of Iroquois

Contributions

-Oct. 4, 1988 (House)-Oct. 21, 1988 (Senate)


Spanish and British


French-Indian War


Pre-Colonial America


British Colonies


Timeline

• 1764-1774 Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts

• July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence

• March 1, 1781 Articles of Confederation

• Sept. 3, 1783 End Revolutionary War

• 1787 Constitutional Convention


Federalist v. Anti-Federalist


Federalists

• Advocated for a strong central government

• Federalist Papers - Anonymous Op-Eds

• James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay


Anti-Federalists

• Advocated for state’s powers and individual rights

• Brutus essays

• Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, George Mason, James Monroe


Ratification / Compromise


Article I, Article II, Article III


Checks and Balances


Representative Government


Constitution is Supreme

• This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, and Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding

» (U.S. Constit. Art. VI)


Constitutional Impact


Final Word on Constitution?


Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Chief Justice John Marshall


McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)


Necessary and Proper


Summary


Federal Criminal Laws


United States v. Nixon (1972)

No executive privilege


Bill of Rights Cases


Chief Justice Earl WarrenWarren Court (1953-1969)


Warren Court Decisions

• Miranda v. Arizona (1966) (interrogations)

• Mapp v. Ohio (1961) (S&S exclusionary)

• Baker v. Carr (1962) (voting districts)


Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)


Religion/ Establishment Clause

• Engle v. Vitale (1962) (school prayer)

• Abington v. Schempp (1963) (religious instruction)

• Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) (evolution eliminated for religion violates establishment)


Griswold v. Connecticut (1963)


Roe v. Wade (1973)


Dredd Scott v. Sanford (1857)


Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Separate but equal


Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Thurgood Marshall-1936 Thurgood Marshall-1976


NY Times v. Sullivan (1964)


District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)


Death Penalty Cases

• Furman v. Georgia (1972) (unconstitutional)

• Gregg v. Georgia (1976) (agg and mit factors constitutional)


Questions

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