The Warren Court--Redefining American Values

 

Theme: By expanding the meaning of equality, the Warren court federalized American life. It overrode the prerogative of localities to make their own rules and established national citizenship and rights.

1) Race Relations

2) Criminal Procedures

3) Choice and Privacy

Why?

Excessive?

Race Relations

-- Slaughterhouse Case (1873)

-- Civil Rights Cases (1883)

-- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

 

-- Rumblings of Change--The Vinson Court

-- Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka) 1954

-- Criticism

-- Massive Resistance

-- Busing

-- From Equality of Opportunity to Equality of Results--The Bakke Case

ð Weakening of the Liberal Coalition

ð Allan Bakke

-- UC Davis Rejection

ð Lawsuit

ð The Case

1) Past Mistreatment

ð Opposition--Two Wrongs

2) The Benefits of Diversity

ð Opposition: Racial Balkanization

ð The Decision: Race as a Plus Factor

-- Prop 209?

Criminal Procedures--Equality in Access to Justice

-- Mapp v Ohio (1961)

-- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

-- Escobido v. Illinois (1964)

-- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Obscenity--Equality of Lifestyles

-- Roth v. United States (1957)

-- Memoirs. v. Massachusetts (1966)

-- Jenkins v. Georgia (1974)

Privacy

-- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965):

-- Roe v. Wade (1973)

-- Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)