How Animal Guts Gutted the 14th Amendment | The Slaughterhouse Cases
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2019
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In episode 51 of Supreme Court Briefs, animal guts in the drinking water of New Orleans leads to the first major interpretation of the 14th Amendment by the Supreme Court. #supremecourtbriefs #slaughterhousecases #apgov
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New Orleans, Louisiana, 1867
3,000 residents die from cholera, a horrible disease characterized by having violent diarrhea until you’re dehydrated. How did they get cholera? From drinking the water. This is not surprising, as New Orleans water at the time was filthy. The president of the Board of Health testified, “When the river is low, it is not uncommon to see intestines and portions of putrefied animal matter lodged immediately around the pipes.” Yep, animal guts were in the drinking water, and citizens were dying horrible deaths after drinking it.
So how did the animal guts get in the drinking water in the first place? Well, just outside of the city, around 1,000 butchers gutted over 300,000 animals per year. New Orleans begged the Louisiana state legislature to do something about it. They did, passing a law that granted a monopoly to the Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughtering Company, saying that only it could run a slaughterhouse in New Orleans. The company would not actually butcher animals, but rent out space to other butchers in the city for a fee.
Well, it turns out the Crescent City folks had bribed the Louisiana legislature to give them the monopoly, and a bunch of butchers didn’t like this so much. More than 400 butchers of the Butchers’ Benevolent Association- what a great name- joined up to sue the Crescent City Company, saying that their monopoly created involuntary servitude, which went against the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. They also argued the monopoly prevented them from getting property and hurt their freedom to make money, bringing up the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the recently ratified 14th Amendment.
There were many lawsuits, and the butchers lost every single one of them. However, six of the butchers appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, which agreed with the lower courts. So the butchers appealed again to the Supreme Court, since this is a Supreme Court Briefs episode, ya know, and the Court agreed to look at their cases, hearing oral arguments in January and February of 1873.
Remember, the 14th Amendment had passed less than five years prior, and the Court was still trying to figure out its implications. John A. Campbell, who represented the butchers and used to be a federal judge but stepped down due to his Confederate loyalties, argued that the 14th Amendment should be interpreted broadly to protect equality not just for the recently freed slaves, but all Americans. Matthew H. Carpenter, who represented Louisiana, argued the monopoly of the Crescent City Company was justified as a way to protect public health and safety.
The Court announced their decision on April 14, 1873. They sided with Louisiana. It was a close one. 5-4. The Court held the monopoly did not go against the 13th and 14th Amendments because the 13th was about ending slavery and the 14th was about then giving equality to former slaves. In other words, you couldn’t expand those two Amendments to all groups of people.
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@@iammrbeat Do Ramos v. Louisiana
Supreme Court Briefs videos don't get that many views!?!? That makes me want to just binge watch the entire Supreme Court Briefs series.
I wouldn't be upset if you did. :) According to my calculations, that would take you about 6 hours.
@@iammrbeat Well Mr. Beat I did it! Just finished binge watching (or rather binge listening because I'm at work) the entire Supreme Court Briefs series! It did take about 6 hours but it was worth it. Gerrymandering, birthrite citizenship, Miranda, Amistad, Eugenics, etc., a lot of good topics were covered. Thanks Mr. Beat!
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Which Supreme Court case should I cover next?
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Coleman v. Miller!
You should do a supreme court case from the last 15 years.
@@ermesdallagasperina6136 try 3 years
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I subscribed for the Briefs dude
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Great Video Mr Beat. It is weird how the animal remains somehow got in to the water ways.
Thanks Ermes! And yes, definitely weird, but New Orleans was kind of notorious for it back then. 😐
I'm still fairly new to your channel. Six months maybe. Just in the past couple months have I started watching SCB. I enjoy them. I hope you keep making them.
Good to know! I will certainly keep making them. The only question is how often at this point. I love making them and actually use them in my own classroom, so as long as that's the case the series will stick around.
I was hoping you could do a piece on the second amendment and how it had nothing to do with citizens needing to be armed to protect themselves from the government and everything to do with protecting the rich white man from a slavery uprise and to defend themselves from the natives because for some reason they didn't like having their land stolen from them
These are the most interesting types of video on your channel!
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Even though supreme court briefs don't get as many views, It seems like those who do watch it enjoy it alot.
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My stages of reäction to this one:
>"gutted the 14th amendment"
>has heart attack
>reälizes it's from over a century ago
What's with the umlauts? ‹Ë›?
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
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U know what they are, but my question is your usage.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I guess it's similar to e.g. "coördinate".
@@seneca983
That's rather old spelling, if anything.
good evening Mr. Beat. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas. I'm a huge fan of your Supreme Court briefs Mister beat. I commend you for doing these in enlightening me on the history of cases heard in the higher court. You are amazing.
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Sounds like a government sanctioned monopoly. A few people are upset while the vast majority are better off. Also, can't imagine how pissed Bingham had to be to hear his amendment be misinterpreted just 5 years after he explained it. This country has a long history of protecting the problem while exposing the victims
Supreme Court Briefs are my favorite, when I found your channel I bing watched all of them.
What do you call a cow with legs? GROUND BEEF! Great Vid, can’t wait for the next briefs!
With no legs you mean?
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Brief.
Thanks for covering this case! I am no legal scholar, but it appears as though Justice Thomas is trying to revive the Privileges or Immunities Clause.
Great video!
Could you do Carpenter v. United States (No. 16-402)? I think this is especially important today regarding increasing tendencies to electronic surveillance.
This is my favorite series yet!
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I’m surprised Supreme Court Briefs is unpopular. they are my favourite videos on your channel. Maybe because I’m not from the USA and I didn’t learn about this stuff is why I find them so interesting.
Trust me, most Americans didn't learn about this stuff, either. :) But so glad you dig them! Don't worry, this series is sticking around regardless of its success.
Mr. Beat consider doing Davis v. Washington. It's a quite interesting case
Would you do circuit court case as well? Meaning those cases that haven't been reviewed by the Supreme Court but are still important even when say the 9th Circuit Court was the highest one?
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Perfect. I will totally do this.
Incredible how such a close vote had such a monumental impact on American society
Excellent work Thanks.
Do one on "Star'e decisis" ( stand by not to change former decision of higher court rulings).
Can you do a video comparing Tulsa, OK and Wichita, KS or Tulsa, OK and Oklahoma City, OK?
Interestingly enough, Justice Stephen Field is why "Corporate Personhood" exists
Great video
Best teacher hands down
Everybody, like this video now.
Mrbeat, I assume you'll record this if it happens...😀😀
Thanks for the interesting videos.
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do a city comparison between Montgomery and Birmingham or mobile and huntsville
You need to do more of these, I love the SCB's... The arbitrary "x vs y" is pretty meh to me, not that you don't do them well, but loads of channels pump those out.
Great video for civics classes!
I hope teachers find it useful!
Giving a private slaughterhouse company a monopoly seems like a dumb way to solve an issue of of butcher waste causing unsafe drinking water. Better to legislate to control what the slaughter industry can and cannot do to keep them from contaminating the water. Or just nationalize the industry outright.
Well there were bribes so....
This is Louisiana we're talking about. They actually seem to manage more historical and present-day bribability than the government of Texas.
I live in Texas. This is an accomplishment.
...Public safety in the drinking water, air and sundry is low on the state agenda to this day. Google "Louisiana cancer alley."
I think the so-called justification was that it would be easier for New Orleans and Louisiana to hold one company accountable for the animal guts in the water.
To be fair, it did work. Not to mention it was at a far cheaper cost and time effective solution
@@aintnoway686 Works short term. Long-term the monopoly would've led exhoberent prices and unhuman wages. Oh. And also more guts in the water now that you have to deal with a single powerful corporation that is influencing the government instead of a couple of powerless butchers.
At 4:37 I thought that was the cover to Carter 4 at first
& I thought I’d heard it all
Can you do US v. Cruikshank?
Im sad to hear that Supreme court brief doesnt do well in your channel. They are my favorite
Well thank you Juan!
Can you do Calgary vs Edmonton
next do Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union
classic episode
Aw :)
why was this case not used in the posioned waters of Flint Michigan
Where did the guts go after that ruling? Did they just render them ["cook"]?
You should compare Minneapolis's to Winnipeg
So temporary monopolies are good? sometimes? 🤷♂️
Can you now do Virginia and Maryland Compared it's Taking so Long
If I did UA-cam full-time, it would have happened by now. I have another full-time job that takes up a lot of time, combined with my other obligations.
Mr Beat is a high school teacher.
Do Shelby v Holder
That's a good one. I hope to get to it eventually.
Lol I mostly watch supreme court briefs.
Still waitng for Brown V. Entertainment Merchants Association.
Thanks for the reminder!
Mexico city x Sao Paulo
and nobody is surprised they sided with the company over the workers
Mr Beat explains the cases that made Libertarians a thing in the United States
Minneapolis vs St. Paul
@2:35 Did I hear that right? An ex-Confederate loyalist judge? You can't say that without further elaboration
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Ah, the good old gunpoint amendments. Very shady
holy shit! didnt know diharrea was so violent that whole foot-long intestine sections were part of the shits ejecta
lol
It’s a pretty safe bet... :( (the whole hat thing)
It's a safe bet that I WILL get 1,000 likes or not?
warning to squeamish people, don't watch this while eating, it starts out very very gross. great video though!
I'm glad I decided to not use animal guts after all. :)
Since corporations are people wouldn't Louisiana's case be weaker today?
Probably so? Yeah that precedent wasn't set until later.
Ily
Could you do a video on Iraq's presidents, the latest one actually resigned because of protests that are happening in iraq,
Can you make Newark vs Jersey City like if you agree
I want Nepal and Bhutan compared
What happened after 1879 when the monopoly was made illegal?
How on earth was the 14th Amendment ratified if its author wrote it to defy the 10th Amendment? Definitely thankful that the Supreme Court was able to limit its reach.
So how do you feel about Brown v. The Board of Education?
Yeah the monopoly didn’t make water safer the threat of the monopoly being removed did. You could simply pass a law about where animal carcasses could be done away to. I mean that’s what the monopoly did after all.
In the Netherlands, we have the saying:
'De slager keurt zijn eigen vlees'
The butcher inspects his own meat? What does that mean?
@@iammrbeat I am terribly sorry Mr. Beat! I have never responded to you. I don't know why, but I am sorry.
This Dutch saying means that the company who makes the product, also checks the product themselves ("the butcher inspects his own meat or "the slager keurt zijn eigen vlees").
So in short: it is a saying for corruption.
I like civil rights, but I also like not having hog intestines in my drinking water ... so I'm not sure how to feel about this one. :)
You forgot to go to new orleans and hand out money
wait wrong channel
Why they want to ban slaughterhouse?
However Former President Trump allow immigrants work in slaughterhouse even and other jobs forbid for immigrants they increase security boarder. Why America have religions influenced about forbidden killing animals.
i thought this might be about animal rights, a bit dissapointed lol
Yeah, me too. Instead it's the 1800s, when not even all humans had rights. Not disappointed, though, still pretty interesting.
lol yeah the name can be misleading
I think this is the oldest case you’ve reviewed damn
He’s done much older ones, like United States V. The Amistead.
@@the4tierbridge And gibbons v ogden (1824)
@@teoanselmi581 He did a case from the 1700s actually.
@@the4tierbridge oh yes which one?
@@teoanselmi581 I forget.
you can just, eat the guts you know
This is what I was thinking: they could either learn from cultures who use every part of the animal for consumption or sell it to zoos or pet food companies.
@@GottlikeDamon Exactly. It's delicious too. And helps lower the carbon emission because you'll be raising less cattles overall
I am once again just doing the decision:
5-4 in favor of Crescent City
The
Did you just say salty and def?
Dang straight.
Yes he did mrs beat
Mr beast
Not a good case for 14th Amendment.
14th comment
14th for a 14th Amendment video. Niiccceee
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