Signatures Of Waite Supreme Court Who Oversaw Rulings After The Civil War

WAITE COURT (1874-1888). The Waite Court was the period in the Supreme Court when Morrison Waite served as Chief Justice as the seventh Chief Justice. The Waite Court served over the end of the Reconstruction Era into the beginning of the Gilded Age, playing an important role in the constitutional crisis that arose during the 1876 presidential election. They confronted questions coming up from the Civil War, with many rulings denying the federal government the power to protect the civil rights of African Americans. In addition to Morrison Waite, membership included Nathan Clifford, Noah Haynes Swayne, Samuel Freeman Miller, David Davis, Stephen Johnson Field, William Strong, Joseph P. Bradley, Ward Hunt, John Marshall Harlan, William Burnham Woods, Stanley Matthews, Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford, and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II.Cards Signed. c. 1882-1887. N. p. Nine individual cards framed and signed, Jos. P. Bradley, Sam F. Miller, W. B. Woods, Horace Gray, M. R. Waite, Stanley Matthews, Samuel Blatchford, John Marshall Harlan, and Stephen J Field. On top of these cards is an oversized vintage photograph of the court. This specific court oversaw cases such as Pace v. Alabama, where the court upheld Alabama's anti-miscegenation laws, Civil Rights Cases which held that the Equal Protection Clause and the Thirteenth Amendment do not protect against racial discrimination by private actors, and Elk v. Wilkins where the court held that the Citizenship Clause does not automatically grant citizenship to Native Americans born on Indian reservations. These individual cards are professionally framed and in fine condition.