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    Supreme Court Haiku
    Supreme Court Haiku
    Supreme Court Haiku
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    Supreme Court Haiku

    By Keith Jaasma

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    Taking the "best" of the Supreme Court Haiku websites and Twitter feed, the long-awaited Supreme Court Haiku book features over 300 haiku summaries of Supreme Court cases and other mediocre haiku poetry about the Supreme Court. Carry this electronic version of Supreme Court case haiku around with your pocket Constitution and impress your friends, at least the nerdy ones.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateSep 11, 2018
    ISBN9780359077946
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      Supreme Court Haiku - Keith Jaasma

      Supreme Court Haiku

      Supreme Court Haiku

      Keith Jaasma

      Cover Supreme Court Haiku logo by Miguel Herrera

      Copyright 2018 by Keith Jaasma.  All Rights Reserved

      This ebook may not be reproduced or displayed in whole or in part, by any means now known or yet to be invented, without the express written perrmission of Keith Jaasma or his heirs or assigns, excepting brief quotes used in reviews or scholarly journals.  The purchase of this ebook does not confer upon the purchaser license to use this work or any part therein in other works, including derivatives.

      First Edition 2018

      ISBN # 978-0-359-07794-6

      Publisher Keith Jaasma, 6363 Woodway, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77057

      For more information: haikumaster@SupremeCourtHaiku.com

      For my wife Amy

      And my kids: Ella, Henry,

      And Juliana

      Preface

      What is a haiku?

      Japanese poetry form

      Learned when I was young

      First five syllables

      And then seven syllables

      Then five once again

      U.S. Supreme Court

      Often writes long opinions

      That could be shorter

      As short as haiku?

      Sometimes it works.  Sometimes not

      You can be the judge

      Case Law Haiku

      C:\Users\Keith\Desktop\SCOTUS photos\Court outside.JPG

      The Law of the Land

      In Seventeen Syllables

      This Is a Haiku

      Marbury v. Madison (1803)

      Judicial Review

      Of Congressional action

      Checks and balances

      Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)

      State court construction

      Concerning Federal law

      SCOTUS reigns supreme

      McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

      Bank of the U.S.

      Necessary and Proper

      State cannot tax it

      Cohens v. Virginia (1821)

      State criminal case

      Constitutional right claimed

      SCOTUS may review

      Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

      New York steamboat laws

      Navigation is commerce

      Reserved to Congress

      United States v. The Amistad (1841)

      Kidnapped Africans

      Revolt at sea justified

      Declared to be free

      Sheldon v. Sill (1850)

      Congress can’t narrow

      Supreme Court jurisdiction

      Lower courts? 

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