The Supreme Court, of the corporate United states, hands down Ex parte McCardle, denying William H. McCardle’s petition for Habeas Corpus—after the Court had already granted certiorari to hear it—due to the subsequent passage of the Judiciary Act of 1868. “We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the Legislature.” This is an ex post facto law, prohibited by Article I, Section 9 [Clause 3].
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The Supreme Court hands down Texas v. White, overturning Cohens v. Virginia: “The Constitution … looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. When Texas became one of the [u]nited States, she entered into an indissoluble relation[ship]. …”
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References:
Texas v. White, 7 Wallace (74 U.S.) 700, 725 (1869).
Ex parte McCardle, cert. granted, 6 Wallace (73 U.S.) 318, (1868); 7 Wallace (74 U.S.) 506, 514 (1869).
Gerald Gunther, Constitutional Law, twelfth edition, (1937; Westbury, New York: Foundation, 1991), 39.
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