However, there is a more plausible explanation for the renewed popularity of natural law arguments in Mornay's Vindiciae, and for the popularity of those arguments in other resistance texts inside Britain: John Ponet's lucidly argued A shorte treatise of politike power (1556) and Geo rge Buchanan's influential Dejure regni apud Scotos (1579).

While the immediate impact of the ruling was to prohibit dejure school segregation, Brown breat hed life into the political struggle that, against all political odds, brought about a revolution in public policy, affecting every branch of government at the federal, state, and local levels.

These forces combined with political, ideological, economic, and other dynamics produced the dejure mental health policy of the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients in the United States.