Cases Flashcards
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Forcing Amish students to go to school past the eighth grade violates the free exercise clause.
Engel v. Vitale
School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause.
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Public school students could wear black armbands, a form of symbolic speech, in school to protest the Vietnam War.
Schenck v. United States
Speech that presents a “clear and present danger” is not protected by the First Amendment.
McCulloch v. Maryland
The U.S. Constitution and federal laws are supreme over state laws.
United States v. Lopez
Congress may not use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime.
New York Times Company v. United States
The government cannot block, or censor, the publication of classified documents, no matter how they were obtained.
Gideon v. Wainwright
The poor are guaranteed an attorney in criminal prosecutions. The states must provide counsel.
Roe v. Wade
The right of privacy, established in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
McDonald v. Chicago
The states must support the right to keep and bear arms.
Brown v. Board of Education, I
Race-based school segregation violates the equal protection clause.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Political spending by corporations, associations, and labor unions is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment.
Baker v. Carr
Challenges to redistricting did not raise “political questions” that would keep federal courts from reviewing such challenges.
Shaw v. Reno
Legislative redistricting must be conscious of race and ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Marbury v. Madison
Established the principle of judicial review empowering the Supreme Court to nullify an act of the legislative or executive branch that violates the Constitution
