There are around 14 States that are present on the east coast of the United States which means the states considered lie around the Atlantic Ocean. The East Coast States have some very popular States in them like New York City.
Some of the East Coast States are named as Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, North and South Carolina, Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware and Virginia are included in them.
The court case questioned whether foreign detainees at Guantanamo Bay had rights to habeaus corpus under US law. The rights of the accused are not necessarily transferred to those detained as they are a "threat" to US safety.
What I can tell you is that the states were divided on whether or not to fully slave or not slave. The compromise was a draft that said a thin line across a certain state would balance out the number of slave state to the number of free states.
