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Has the US Supreme Court ever reversed itself on a major constitutional issue?
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Yes, on the issue of racial segregation. In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, it ruled that public facilities could be segregated along racial lines as long as the facilities were equal for both. One restroom for whites and another for blacks. In 1954, it overruled Plessy in Brown v. Board of Education by ruling that "separate" is inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional under the equal protection clause. In that case it was one school for whites and another for blacks.
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