According to the Constitution the answer is yes. The federal government is the guardian of the Constitution and Article IV the Constitution establishes a series of guidelines and principles that dictate the duties, rights and powers of states towards the federal government and to each other. Two sections are of special importance:
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
This section is known as the “Full Faith and Credit Clause” and it means for example that a couple who married in Colorado and then moves to Texas will still be legally married in Texas which is bound by this clause to accept the marriage certificate from Colorado as a valid legal document.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
This Section is known as the Privileges and Immunities Clause and it means for example that American citizens to move from Texas to California have to be granted all the rights and privileges that the state of California has granted to its native-born residents.
It must be considered by the senate, before passing it to the president for approval. Both houses (congress and senate) needs to both approve before going to the next approval. Hope this helps. =)
Both guarantee rights and freedom
<span>Patriotism was high and men were eager to fight for justice and their country.</span>
<em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em> (1896) was a Supreme Court decision that upheld the principle of "separate but equal" in regard to racial segregation. The Court's decision said that separate, segregated public facilities were acceptable as long as the facilities offered were equal in quality.
In the decades after the Civil War, states in the South began to pass laws that sought to keep white and black society separate. In the 1880s, a number of state legislatures began to pass laws requiring railroads to provide separate cars for passengers who were black. At the heart of the case that became <em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em> was an 1890 law passed in Louisiana in 1890 that required railroads to provide "separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.”
In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black, bought a first class train railroad ticket, took a seat in the whites only section, and then informed the conductor that he was part black. He was removed from the train and jailed. He argued for his civil rights before Judge John Howard Ferguson and was found guilty. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court which at that time upheld the idea of "separate but equal" facilities.
Several decades later, the 1896 <em>Plessy v. Ferguson </em>decision was overturned. <em>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka</em>, decided by the US Supreme Court in 1954, extended civil liberties to all Americans in regard to access to education. The "separate but equal" principle of <em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em> had been applied to education as it had been to transportation. In the case of <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em>, that standard was challenged and defeated. Segregation was shown to create inequality, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.
