court cases

Question 1

Boerne Vs. Flores

Answer 1

• 14th amendment
• town of Boerne says no to renovations of church
• Flores church sues saying violated freedom of religion
• court days issue is zoning issue not freedom+ of religion issue

Question 2

Mcdonald Vs Chicago

Answer 2

• 2nd & 14th amendment
• chicago had a law baning handguns, mcdonald sued the city bc it violated his 2nd amendment right which should apply to the state and local governments via the 14th amendment
• opened the dor to more cases dismantaling gun control

Question 3

Mapp V Ohio

Answer 3

• 4th amendment, exclusionary rule
• tip that mapp was harboring a suspect, instead found porn which was illigal at the time
• unnnecessarry search and seizure

Question 4

Benton vs Maryland

Answer 4

• 5th amendment, double jeopardy clause
• tried of burglary and larceny, got convicted for burglary. got a second trial bc he thought his jury was unfair. got convicted for both, said cant do that
• double jeopardy wasn’t part of maryland constituiton so it got incorperated into states

Question 5

McCulloch v Maryland

Answer 5

• article I, Section 8 ( Necessary and Proper clause)

- congress used implied power to create the second national bank . Maryland was trying to tax all bank operations.

Question 6

Barron vs. Baltimore

Answer 6

• 5th amendment
• Barron says the city diverged water flow, creating problems for his business, sued the city, court said no
• does the 5th amendment allow the state to take private property wo compensating the properties owner

Question 7

Marbury Vs. Madison

Answer 7

• Judicial review/ separation of powers
• William Marbury was supposed to get a letter saying he was a justice, Thomas told James not to deliver the letter bc he didn’t want him to be one, which started the petition the writ of mandamus
• it established judicial review and demonstrate the power of the judicial branch

Question 8

Roe Vs. Wade

Answer 8

• 14th amendment, right to privacy

- established a womens right to abortion, and prohibited states from making it a criminal act

Question 9

Plessy Vs Feurgeson

Answer 9

• separate but equal
• Plessy a man who was 1/8th black sat in a white only car, supreme court ruled that things will be separate but equal.
• established segregation as
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Question 10

Gibbons vs Ogden

Answer 10

• article 1 section 8 “ “commerce among the several states”
• Chief Justice Marshall argued that NY did not have power to grant the monopoly
• established supremacy of the national gov in all matters affecting what later became “interstate commerce”

Question 11

Fletcher vs Peck

Answer 11

• Article I, Section 10, Clause I (contract clause)
• Georgia passed a land grant giving territory to 4 companies, the following year the legislature voided the law and declared all rights invalid
• john peck sold the land to fletcher illigally, fletcher says the contract is breached

Question 12

Slaughterhouse cases

Answer 12

• 14th amendment (privilege’s and immunities”
• new Orleans slaughter houses were forced to pay one communal slaughterhouse to do business from their location and they protested.
• court ruled that protected only certain narrow fedral rights, not tje protections found in the bill of rights