 Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861) |
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The Confederate Constitution explicitly protected slavery and its expansion into new territories. It also defined the presidency as a single six-year term.
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| Emancipation Proclamation (1863) |
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure that freed the enslaved people in territories occupied by confederate forces. Given by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, the document represents the first step in ending American slavery by declaring those enslaved within confederate territories free and protected by the United States military.
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| Hoyt v. Florida (1961) |
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In this case, the Supreme Court considered whether laws like that of Florida, which allowed women to be exempt from serving on juries unless they specifically registered to do so, were constitutional. Gwendolyn Hoyt alleged that because there were no women on her jury, she was not given a fair trial. The Court decided that because women were given an opportunity to register to be considered for jury duty, the law was constitutional.
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| Papachristou et al. v. City of Jacksonville (1972) |
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In this case, the Supreme Court found that state and municipal vagrancy codes were too vague, resulting in their overturning.
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| Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996) |
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In the Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, the Supreme Court considered whether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act violated the state of Florida's state sovereignty as guaranteed by the Eleventh Amendment.
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| Treaty of San Lorenzo (1795) |
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Also referred to as Pinckney's Treaty after the U.S. official who negotiated it, this treaty settled the borders between the United States and the Spanish colony of Florida as well as provided guidelines for future navigational disputes. Pinckney's Treaty was later referenced in the 1841 Amistad case when Spanish officials demanded the return of the Africans on board the ship as "property" seized by Americans on the high seas, per Article IX of the treaty.
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