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The Case that Ended Nixon's Presidency

In the past weeks in my humanities Course policy, we looked at how policy is created, who creates policy, and even how people react to policy. In this unit, we look specifically at the judicial branch of the United States of America. We studied the history of the supreme court and how it had little momentum at first until John Marshall came up with the idea of judicial review. We found out the constitution is very broad in article III unlike articles I and II. We also learned that the judicial branch is just as powerful as the other two branches of government. The judicial branch can make decisions that can create or abolish law for example in Roe v. Wade The supreme court ruled that the constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without government restriction. A more recent example of this is on June 26, 2015,  the United States Supreme Court held it in a 504 decision that required all states to grant same-sex marriages--Obergef