Read the following 1954 ruling by the Supreme Court. In the case, Hernandez v. Texas, Pete Hernandez was appealing his murder conviction by an all-white jury on the grounds that he was not given a fair trial.
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Write a 350-word MLA-style essay that answers the following questions: In what specific ways did Pete Hernandez and his lawyer argue that the case against him was unconstitutional? What does the 14th Amendment actually say (you can find the Constitution in the back of your textbook)? What did this case, and the idea of a “two-class theory,” say about how some Americans perceived different ethnic groups in the 1950s? What do you think was the main point of the Supreme Court’s ruling?
