What were the Insular Cases Apush?
The Anti-Saloon league was founded in 1893 and fought for prohibition by working with churches across the United States. The American Temperance Society was founded in 1826 in Boston, and promoted not only prohibition, but African Americans’ rights, womens’ rights, and other social reform movements.
Why was Insular Cases important?
The Constitution, in other words, did not and should not follow the flag, lest it interfere with our rise as a great power. Constitutional rights generally apply extraterritorially to Americans. Yet only “fundamental” constitutional rights apply in Puerto Rico and some other insular possessions of the United States.
The Insular Cases were the result of the Treaty of Paris, signed by the U.S. and Spain on December 10, 1898, which officially ended the Spanish-American War.
What did the Supreme Court rule on the Insular Cases? They ruled that full constitutional rights did not automatically extend to all areas under American control.
What was the Supreme Court ruling in what became known as the Insular Cases?
These were court cases dealing with islands/countries that had been recently annexed and demanded the rights of a citizen. These Supreme Court cases decided that the Constitution did not always follow the flag, thus denying the rights of a citizen to Puerto Ricans and Filipinos.
