Let me introduce you to our guests. He has argued more than 75 cases before the Supreme Court. Paul, welcome. Michael is a legal historian and the author of a biography of a justice you are hearing about tonight. I will have you make the case to the audience. Why is this on our list . Why did the slaughterhouse cases matter . This case belongs in any list of great Landmark Supreme Court cases and it is the first opportunity the Supreme Court has to interpret the 14th amendment and the reason that is so important is the 14th amendment is what essentially takes big erin t of the bill of rights eventually and constraints the actions of State Government and if you think about the bill of rights, all of them by their terms were designed to restrict the federal government. It is really only at the point that we go through a civil war were people realize its not just a federal government they have to be concerned about but State Governments. There is a process of adding the 13th, 14th, and 13
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