Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 59 Dred Scott 54 Dred Scott decision 49 J. concurring 46 Plessy v. Ferguson 46 Ex parte 46 Eleventh Circuit 45 Supreme Courts 44 judicial activism 44 dicta 43 Supreme Court 42 ex rel 42 Justice Harry Blackmun 42 Fourteenth Amendment 42 unelected judges 41 per curiam 41 concurring opinion 41 abolished slavery 41 originalist 41 dissenting justices 41 Hamdan v. 41 judicial fiat 40 dissenting opinion 40 Montesquieu 40 SCOTUS 40 Roe v 40 4th DCA 40 exclusionary rule 40 jurisprudential 39 Justice Oliver Wendell 39 American Exceptionalism 39 Justices 39 pp. #-# [001] 39 v. FEC 39 Progressive Era 39 precedents 39 justices 38 racial oppression 38 Founding Fathers 38 State ex rel 38 strict constructionist 38 originalism 37 Sedition Acts 37 Supreme Court justices 37 Constitutionality 37 slave rebellion 37 unconstitutional 37 v. 37 slavery 37 appellate courts 37 Thomas Hobbes 37 1st DCA 37 blatantly unconstitutional 37 appellate 36 Justice Scalia 36 Supreme Court Justices 36 abolish slavery 36 Due Process Clause 36 constitutional 36 Constitution forbids 36 slaveholders 36 supremacy clause 36 Supremacy Clause 36 Ninth Circuit 36 Tenth Circuit 36 unconstitutionally 36 Commerce Clause 35 jurisprudence 35 rulings 35 Confederacy 35 Roe v. Wade 35 abolitionists 35 Kelo v. City 35 Boer War 35 racial bigotry 35 appellate judges 35 constitutionalism 35 abolitionist movement 35 dissented 35 Edmund Burke 35 jurists 35 Justice Breyer 35 dissenters 34 constitutionally 34 Roe vs. 34 dissent 34 Whig 34 Federalists 34 habeas 34 Seventh Circuit 34 slaves 34 precedent 34 Mayflower Compact 34 Jim Crow 34 freed slaves 34 stare decisis 34 Fifth Circuit 34 Slavery 34 eugenic 34 Puritan 34 Thucydides 34 founding fathers