1. What gave the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal court, the right to review a Texas state law? The question was whether burning the flag was protected under the First Amendment right to free speech. The Supreme Court held that it was.
The fact that a U.S. Constitutional right was asserted gave the Supreme Court federal jurisdiction. 2. Suppose that Johnson had burned a Texas state flag instead of the U.S. flag. * a. Would the U.S. Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear the case? * b. If the Supreme Court did hear the case, do you think the decision would have been any different from this case? 3. The Supreme Court could hear the case and the result would more-than-likely have been the same because the actual issue was the Right to Free Speech under the U.S. Constitution, not whether the criminal law was state or federal.

1. What is the doctrine of separate but equal? “Separate but equal” doctrine announced by this Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537. Under that doctrine, equality of treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though these facilities be separate. “The doctrine first enunciated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 16 S. Ct. 1138, 41 L. Ed. 256 (1896), to the effect that establishing different facilities for blacks and whites was valid under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as long as they were equal.”1 2. What did the Court say about that doctrine in this case? That equal treatment is accorded when the races are provided substantially equal facilities, even though they may be in different places. 3. How much importance did this Court give to the actual intent of the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment? After reading this paragraphs from our text “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of