Legalease
The Supreme Court case that began as a dude wanting to sit where he wanted to sit in a train car to challenge the law and it backfired so tragically that we are still affected by this today.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Latin phrase that means you have a body.
Mr. D's favorite sandwich from Arthur Avenue Deli.
What is Chicken Parm?
Abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
Name for a group of people who terrorized others to stop them from voting and living peaceful lives.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Taney again. Enough with this nonsense can't we just party like we used to be in Robin Hood's retinue? It has to do with Habeas Corpus.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?
The state of being Dodelin; also the major mineral export of Dodelberg.
What is Dodelinium?
Tristan's favorite singer; a classmate of Mr. D at Fordham.
Who is Lana Del Ray?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The name the states in rebellion gave to themselves.
What is the Confederate States of America?
Nah Taney. This one is mad cap. You were just supposed to rule on a person's freedom not overturn acts by Congress and laws of Nature.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The translation of Sic Semper Tyrannis.
What is thus always to tyrants?
Band whose lead singer inspired Mr. D to keep the H when shortening his name.
What is Radiohead?
The 15th amendment gave this right to all men.
What is vote?
You've heard of construction but this is like the name for doing it again after you know it all like got destroyed.
What is reconstruction?
To formally withdraw from an organization or institution.
What is secede?
Latin phrase that roughly translates to out of many we are one.
What is E Pluribus Unum?
This Glory actor graduated from Fordham like 30 years before Mr. D. King Kong has nothing on him.
Who is Denzel Washington?
An obstructive piece of legal garbage that was a veiled attempt to deny the right to vote to people.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
The name for the regiment that Ferris Bueller led.
What is the 54th?
A place where a formerly enslaved person might place their keys, wallet, or mail when walking in from a day at work.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
Translation of Semper Fudge.
What is Always Fudge?
The food that the school cafeteria chef refused to make for Mr. D because he wanted to begin cleaning up early even though dinner was supposed to be served until 8 and Mr. D wanted to watch the Simpsons which ended at 7:30 (no streaming services in 2005) and Mr. D was totally there at 7:45 and it still bugs me to this day although there was always still pizza and French Fries.
What is an omelette?
Per the 14th Amendment being born in the U.S. makes a person a U.S. citizen is called this.
What is birthright citizenship?
The name of the play that Lincoln was watching when he was shot.
What is Our American Cousin?