Supreme Court Haiku

Judical Review

Of Congressional action

Checks and balances

State court construction

Concerning federal law

SCOTUS reigns supreme

Bank of the U.S.

Necessary and Proper

No state taxation

D.C. Lottery

Crime to sell tix in VA

Brothers can be fined

New York steamboat laws

Navigation is commerce

Reserved to Congress

Congress may not narrow

Supreme Court jurisdiction

Lower courts?  It may

Slaves and descendants

No constitutional rights

Could not sue in court

Despite Civil War

Texas never really left

The United States

Free Exercise Clause

Protects belief, not action

One wife is enough

Separate Car Act

No Fourteenth Amendment bar

Jim Crow laws increase