THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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A murder case
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A million-dollar lawsuit
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A case involving 1st amendment rights
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A contract dispute
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Detailed explanation-1: -What were these two verdicts passed by the Supreme Court? Both these verdicts involved the press: Brij Bhushan v State of Delhi (March 1950), and Romesh Thappar v State of Madras (May 1950). It was the verdicts in these cases that essentially promoted the first amendment.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Cantwell v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court holds for the first time that the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment makes the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment applicable to states.
Detailed explanation-3: -Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.