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Standard embrocate Case of 1911     Out of the cases decided by the compulsive courtroom I feel the most influential dealt with the issue of Civil Rights. Two cases in particular that dealt with the post Civil War use of the ordinal Amendment were J peerlesss v. Mayer, 1968 and Runyan v. McCrary, 1976. Although the thirteenth Amendment was added to the constitution in 1865 it was non fully put to use until one hundred years later. That is why I feel that the judgements made by the Supreme Court in these two cases was necessary and showed the way our government can evolve to fit the times. The thirteenth stated that slavery would no longer be allowed in the U.S. unless used as punishment for a convicted crime. After the Civil War many civil rights laws were passed based on the thirteenth Amendment but were later repealed. carnal knowledge drew the conclusion that racial discrimination did not place sicks in servitude. For years after it was believed that Co ngress did not have the power under the amendment to deal with racial discrimination.     In the Jones v. Mayer case of 1968 helped to bring back the power of a lost Thirteenth civil rights law. The law stated that all citizens of The United States had the right to purchase, sell, or rent any territory that could be enjoyed by white citizens. Jones had sued Mayer because he refused to sell him a home because he was black. The Court decided for Jones adage the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and gives to Congress to abolish the "badges of slavery." In the 1976 Runyan v. McCrary case, two black students had been refused admittance into two private schools in Virginia. The Court applied other 1866 law that stated all citizens of The United States had the right to make and employ contracts as do white citizens. Since the schools went against their publicly advertised admissions contract the Court decided for the students. These two cases are very in fluential because they used the Thirteenth Amendment to give Congress the right to do away with any rest "Badges of Slavery."     Two cases that were not justly decided were Plessy v. Ferguson and Michael M. v. Superior Court. In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court decided that having separated but equal facilities was constitutional and did not inflict a "badge of slavery." However this gave people the right to separatism and discrimination which is unconstitutional.