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Plessy v. Ferguson
law case [1896]
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Brian Duignan
Brian Duignan is a senior editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. His subject areas include philosophy, law, social science, politics, political theory, and religion.
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Plessy v. Ferguson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. Plessy v. Ferguson was the first major inquiry into the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s (1868) equal-protection clause, which prohibits the states from denying “equal protection of the laws” to any person within their jurisdictions. Although the majority opinion did not contain the phrase “separate but equal,” it gave constitutional sanction to laws designed to achieve racial segregation by means of separate and supposedly equal public facilities and services for African Americans and whites. It served as a controlling judicial precedent until it was overturned by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
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<u>The correct answer is C. U.S. Supreme Court justices are appointed while Georgia Supreme Court justices are elected.</u>
Let's review the truthfulness of the other three options:
A. <u><em>Only the U.S. Constitution deals with individual rights and freedoms.</em></u> This is false. Georgia Constitution in the First Section of Article One, describes the state's Bill of Rights, 28 paragraphs of individual rights.
B. <u><em>Only the U.S. Constitution specifically creates a legislative branch of the government. </em></u>This is also false. Georgia’s legislative branch, since 1777, when the first state constitution was created, is similar to the U.S. Congress in that it is bicameral, or has two chambers or houses. Georgia’s legislative branch is called the General Assembly.
D. <u><em>An American president can only serve two consecutive four-year terms in office</em></u><em>,</em> <em><u>but a Georgia governor can serve three consecutive four-year terms. </u></em>This is wrong because a Governor of the State is limited to two consecutive four-year terms of office.
<u>Finally, the nine Judges of the Georgia State Court are selected using the nonpartisan election of judges system. On the other hand, the President of the United States nominate, with the advice and confirmation of the Senate, the justices to the Supreme Court.</u>
