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'''''Loving v. Virginia''''' was a [[Supreme Court]] Case dealing with [[interracial marriage]].
'''''Loving v. Virginia''''' was a [[Supreme Court]] Case dealing with [[interracial marriage]].
== [[Miscegenation]] Laws, and the Facts of the Case ==
== [[Miscegenation]] Laws, and the Facts of the Case ==
Laws against interracial marriage were still in effect in sixteen US states as recently as 1967. Similar laws in other states had been repealed by then.
Laws against interracial marriage were still in effect in sixteen US states as recently as 1967. Similar laws in other states had been repealed by then.
==Original Intent==
==Original Intent==
''Loving v. Virginia'' was a living constitutionalist decision, which codified the moral views of nine lawyers on the Supreme Court into U.S. constitutional law. The decision focused on the Fourteenth Amendment, yet those who ratified that amendment did not intend to legalize interracial marriage, and instead leave it up to the people of each state. While the result may fit in with modern sensibilities, the way the Court arrived at it, and the precedent it set, set the groundwork for the Court's later recognition of a constitutional right to [[same-sex "marriage"]].
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==
==Text of the Supreme Court decision: ''Loving v. Virginia''==
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*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html Text of the decision]
*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html Text of the decision]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court Cases]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court Cases]]
[[Category:Marriage]]
[[Category:Marriage]]