The republicans had changed from a party of moral reform to a party of material interest
Freedom Riders= Civil rights activists, rode s bus to the southern segregated parts of the US (1961) to complain about the US court cases ( Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia) deciding that segregated public buses were unconstitutional, and the first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961,[5] and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.[6]
In Marbury v. Madison (1803) the Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution. William Marbury had been appointed a justice of the peace for the District of Columbia in the final hours of the Adams administration. When James Madison, Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, refused to deliver Marbury’s commission, Marbury, joined by three other similarly situated appointees, petitioned for a writ of mandamus compelling delivery of the commissions.
