Southern Manifesto Case Study
The basis of the opposition to the Brown decision as expressed in The Southern Manifesto is the abuse of the judicial power towards race. The Supreme Court “[exercised] their naked judicial power and substituted their personal political and social ideas for the established law of the land.” The Supreme Court basically overruled the authority and took away state rights about the segregation of schools; furthermore, this means the Supreme Court was in theory not following the laws of the Constitution. If the federal government implemented Brown, then the power of the states would be usurp, or taken. The states would not be allowed to decide the kind of education system they want to use because the federal government would be the overall decision