The passage below describes a U. S. Supreme Court decision In 1940, the Texas Democratic Party refused to give an African American man a ballot to select candidates to run for Congress and governor. In finding this action unconstitutional "… this Court is not constrained to follow a previous decision which…, involves the application of a constitutional principle, rather than an interpretation of the Constitution to evolve the principle itself." Source: Smith v. Allwright (1944) What does this court decision illustrate? (Hard)

new evidence is discovered.

oversights and errors are corrected,

new technology is applied to evidence.

c) troops march forward in close formation against newer, more accurate weapons

it foreshadows the theme of the paragraph and hints the topic that will be discussed in the paragraph!

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.