appropriate legislation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 641 - Katzenbach v. Morgan · 1966Most cited · 1,601 citing opinions
Fourteenth Amendment § 5
The McCulloch v. Maryland standard is the measure of what constitutes 'appropriate legislation' under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Correctly viewed, § 5 is a positive grant of legislative power authorizing Congress to exercise its discretion in determining whether and what legislation is needed to secure the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment.
How often courts cite the case defining “appropriate legislation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “appropriate legislation” — 1,576 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.