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The Supreme Court is a powerful legal and political institution in the United States. In decisions such as Bush v. Gore, Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, and Miranda v. Arizona, the Court has determined the outcome of a presidential race, declared women have the right to abortions, struck down segregation, upheld campaign finance reform laws, and stipulated that police officers must inform those accused of crime their rights. Yet this mighty power of the Supreme Court is not of recent origin. Instead, throughout American history it has often been a major player in American politics, deciding over time that states could deny women the right to vote in Minor v. Happersett, that African Americans were property and not citizens (Dred Scott v. Sandford), that gays and lesbians did not have the same rights as heterosexuals (Bowers v. Hardwick), and that Congress could create a national bank (McCulloch v. Maryland). In each of these opinions, the Supreme Court stepped into the middle of major legal debates, but it also issued decisions that addressed important political battles of the day. Yet this is not what the constitutional framers seemed to envision.
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