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Slaughterhouse Cases, in American history, legal dispute that resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1873 limiting the protection of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Oct 19, 2015 · When the Supreme Court heard the Slaughterhouse Cases in 1873, they were tasked with interpreting the meaning and scope of the Reconstruction Amendments passed after the Civil War. Although the 13 th and 14 th Amendments were ratified only five years earlier, the Court adopted a contentious reading of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the ...
The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution only protects the legal rights that are associated with federal U.S. citizenship, not those that pertain to state citizenship.
- Field, joined by Chase, Swayne, Bradley
- Error to the Supreme Court of Louisiana
- Miller, joined by Clifford, Davis, Strong, Hunt
Wex. Slaughterhouse Cases. An 1873 U.S. Supreme Court decision, 83 US 36, on a series of cases in which the Court expressed its first interpretation of the privileges and immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Rejecting this original intent and the plain history of the Clause, the Court in Slaughterhouse held that the Clause only protected a narrow set of rights connected to the workings of the federal government, such as the right to access federal waterways or come to the seat of government.
Slaughter-House. prev | next. Amdt14.S1.2.1 Slaughter-House. Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) The Slaughterhouse Cases, resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873, ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth ...
