How does the court system protect the constitutional freedoms of citizens

How does the court system protect the constitutional freedoms of citizens?

I need to write a essay about it. Help!

Any info or links?

damn thats a hard topic. give me requirements for the essay.
what are u willing to do for it.

Well the court system was set up to interpret the constitution; they are the only branch of government to declare whether an action is constitutional or not.

Most challenges to the constitutional rights of citizens are fought in the Supreme Court.
2 lawyers argue in front of the Supremes .. The Supremes can ask questions and also access their own interpretations of the Constitution..to come to an opinion.

you want to google supreme court, they normally are the ones that deal with consitutional rights. understand what the constitutional rights are (includes bill of rights). then google some big supreme court decisions - today is the anniversary of roe vs. wade, that's a pretty massive constitutional right argument.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/conlaw.htm - look under Individual Decisions and Related Material, those are all cases involving the court system making decisions about our constitutional rights


http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101289.html - with this one you see little summaries. you can just write about these cases and it's more than enough for a short essay



Don't copy and paste... paraphrase! lolz

fair trail. look at the amendments one of them explains it. 13 or 6th

thanks

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thats pretty hard.
im assuming you have to write a thesis etc? what type of essay is it?
and yeah just make 3 reasons (two ive gathered from people here)
-the supreme court interprets decisions
-general court system (including lawyers, judges, the whole shebang)
i think you would need more than what i've stated. thats a hard topic.