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In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the courts have the power of judicial review. Another principle established by John Marshall was that a loose view of the constitution is legal.
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The 14th Amendment was issued around the <em>Reconstruction period</em>, basically to provide equal rights to slave descendants after the Civil War, granting <em>citizenship to all people</em> born or naturalized in the country, and it has become kind of the main provision in the USA Constitution to enforce Civil Rights and prevent violations; but it was only until the <em>Civil Rights Era</em> around the 1950s and 1960s that really became effective; affairs such as <em>"Jim Crow laws"</em>, <em>white supremacy</em> organizations, multiple segregation policies, voter suppression mechanisms such as <em>"The white primries"</em>, poll taxes and some others like <em>literacy tests</em> vastly impeded the effectiveness of the Amandment for a long time.
Following the Pullman strike companies appealing to the courts to issue orders against unions were usually "rewarded", since this strike largely turned American public opinion against large labor unions.
