• Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 1 (1849), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the political question doctrine in...
    5 KB (442 words) - 20:05, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Article Four of the United States Constitution
    v. Carr (1962), which held that the lack of state legislative redistricting to be justiciable. While the Supreme Court's holding in Luther v. Borden still...
    29 KB (3,865 words) - 06:14, 29 July 2024
  • branches of government. For this proposition, decisions such as Luther v. Borden and Marbury v. Madison from the United States were relied upon. The Court...
    18 KB (2,807 words) - 20:22, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Political question
    a State's lawful government". On this ground, the Court refused in Luther v. Borden to decide which group was the legitimate government of Rhode Island...
    27 KB (3,410 words) - 04:07, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dorr Rebellion
    List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States Luther v. Borden See Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. 1 (1849). "Archived copy". Archived from the original...
    19 KB (2,272 words) - 10:08, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roger B. Taney
    Martin Luther, a Dorrite shoemaker, brought suit against Luther Borden, a state militiaman because Luther's house had been ransacked. Luther based his...
    70 KB (8,201 words) - 14:01, 22 November 2024
  • dictatorships, or military rule. In cases such as Luther v. Borden (1849) and Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. v. Oregon (1912), the Supreme Court held...
    8 KB (939 words) - 06:12, 12 November 2024
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not...
    81 KB (10,087 words) - 18:16, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Presidential eligibility of Donald Trump
    Guarantee Clause of the Article IV, Section IV, the Supreme Court held in Luther v. Borden (1849) that the controversy was a political question that could only...
    413 KB (37,070 words) - 21:02, 10 November 2024
  • that the Guarantee Clause forbade Oregon's initiative process, citing Luther v. Borden to conclude that such claims presented political questions and thus...
    10 KB (1,088 words) - 14:17, 18 March 2024
  • constitution felt this should mean is uncertain. The Supreme Court, in Luther v. Borden (1849), declared that the definition of republic was a "political question"...
    75 KB (9,370 words) - 10:48, 7 November 2024
  • Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1852), was a US Supreme Court case that held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or...
    4 KB (288 words) - 23:17, 27 October 2024
  • of the issue assert the legality of the Reorganized government. In Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. 1 (1849), the Supreme Court held that only the federal government...
    35 KB (4,606 words) - 06:21, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States v. The Amistad
    States v. Crandall Gag rule Commonwealth v. Aves Murder of Elijah Lovejoy Burning of Pennsylvania Hall American Slavery As It Is United States v. The Amistad...
    55 KB (7,102 words) - 02:03, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lizzie Borden
    Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and...
    63 KB (7,324 words) - 16:08, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhode Island
    Irish-Americans and maintaining urban under-representation. In 1849, in Luther v. Borden, the US Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutional question...
    178 KB (15,460 words) - 20:36, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jeremiah S. Black
    River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) United States v. The Amistad (1841) Luther v. Borden (1849) Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852) Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)...
    11 KB (807 words) - 22:32, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taney Court
    for a state's ability to promote the general welfare of its people. Luther v. Borden (1849): In a decision written by Chief Justice Taney, the court refused...
    18 KB (1,605 words) - 01:12, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for John William Wallace
    River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) United States v. The Amistad (1841) Luther v. Borden (1849) Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852) Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)...
    3 KB (255 words) - 23:57, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel Freeman Miller
    until his death in 1890 and who authored landmark opinions in United States v. Kagama and The Slaughterhouse Cases. Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Miller was...
    11 KB (1,055 words) - 23:37, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 48
    (7 How.) were decided the Court comprised these nine members: In Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 1 (1849), the Supreme Court established the political...
    23 KB (929 words) - 21:14, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    the two dissenters in the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 decision Dred Scott v. Sandford. Curtis resigned from the Supreme Court in 1857 to return to private...
    27 KB (2,695 words) - 16:35, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Weinberg
    Rationality and the Regulatory State, 53 U. MICH. J. L. REF. 1-80 (2019) Luther v. Borden: A Taney-Court Mystery Solved, 37 PACE LAW REVIEW 700-764 (2017) A...
    13 KB (1,675 words) - 17:40, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Noah Haynes Swayne
    thereby becoming the 35th justice of the Supreme Court. In United States v. Rhodes, 1 Abb. U.S. 28 (C.C.D.Ky. 1867), Justice Swayne, riding on circuit...
    23 KB (2,319 words) - 02:27, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Federalist No. 29
    was later cited among other Federalist Papers by Levi Woodbury in Luther v. Borden (1849).: 317  Since The Federalist Papers were written, discourse about...
    12 KB (1,476 words) - 17:24, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stephen Johnson Field
    Bradley as well as the dissent of Justice Swayne). In both Munn v. Illinois and Mugler v. Kansas, Justice Field based his dissent on the protection of property...
    23 KB (2,232 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2024
  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: Swift v. Tyson Swift v. Tyson, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 1 (1842), was a case brought in diversity in the...
    6 KB (608 words) - 03:09, 13 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for David Davis (Supreme Court justice)
    of the 1876 Electoral Commission charged with resolving the disputed Hayes v. Tilden presidential election; he was widely expected to serve as the deciding...
    18 KB (1,768 words) - 04:46, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Cooper Grier
    century. As one of two Northern members of the majority in the Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) decision, Grier concurred that African Americans were not...
    22 KB (2,771 words) - 23:54, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Daniel Webster
    River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, other major cases he argued before the Taney Court include Thurlow v. Massachusetts and Luther v. Borden. Webster's service...
    100 KB (12,468 words) - 17:52, 19 November 2024