THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Reynolds v. U.S.
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Texas v. Johnson
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Oregon v. Smith
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Miller v. California
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Court upheld Reynolds’s conviction and Congress’s power to prohibit polygamy. The Court held that while Congress could not outlaw a belief in the correctness of polygamy, it could outlaw the practice thereof.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Reynolds v. Sims (1964), the Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that the legislative districts across states be equal in population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Court upheld his conviction and Congress’s power to prohibit polygamy. The Court reasoned, “Congress cannot pass a law for the government of the Territories which shall prohibit the free exercise of religion. The first amendment to the Constitution expressly forbids such legislation….
Detailed explanation-4: -Reynolds’ attorneys, George W. Biddle and Ben Sheeks, appealed the Utah Territorial Supreme Court decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, consisting of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, and Associate Justices Joseph P.