Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

6/15/1804: The 12th Amendment is ratified.

Comments

[JoeFromtheBronx]

Ah, the 12th Amendment. Prime SCOTUS history stuff.

OTD in 2020, BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA was decided. "Held: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII."

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

Also, Reynolds v. Sims, the one person, one vote case, was decided in 1964. Still, hey .. the 12A.

[bye]

Bostock one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history because it strangles the right that was most important to the Founders

"enables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman as bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss."

"[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty." —Thomas Jefferson, 1779.
The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man: and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate." —James Madison, 1785.

"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." —Samuel Adams, Speech on August 1, 1776.

"While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable." —George Washington, in a letter to Benedict Arnold.