> ## Documentation Index
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# Landmark Supreme Court Cases

> Decisions that shaped the meaning of the Constitution.

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    Landmark Cases · 1803–1954
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  <h2 className="hf-display mt-5 text-3xl font-bold leading-[1.05] tracking-tight text-[#15140f] sm:text-4xl dark:text-[#f7f6f1]">The decisions that gave the Constitution its meaning.</h2>
  <p className="mt-4 max-w-2xl text-base leading-relaxed text-[#15140f]/70 dark:text-[#f7f6f1]/70">The Supreme Court gives the Constitution its working meaning. These decisions, for better and for worse, reshaped American law and life.</p>
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  <Card title="Marbury v. Madison" icon="gavel" href="/supreme-court/marbury-v-madison">
    1803 · Established judicial review.
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  <Card title="McCulloch v. Maryland" icon="building-columns" href="/supreme-court/mcculloch-v-maryland">
    1819 · Implied powers and federal supremacy.
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  <Card title="Dred Scott v. Sandford" icon="triangle-exclamation" href="/supreme-court/dred-scott-v-sandford">
    1857 · Denied citizenship to Black Americans.
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  <Card title="Plessy v. Ferguson" icon="ban" href="/supreme-court/plessy-v-ferguson">
    1896 · Upheld "separate but equal."
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  <Card title="Brown v. Board of Education" icon="school" href="/supreme-court/brown-v-board">
    1954 · Struck down school segregation.
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