Court Cases

Question 1

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Answer 1

Judicial Review (the power of federal courts to review laws of Congress and acts of the executive branch in light of the Constitution, with the possibility that they will rule them to be unconstitutional - checks and balances)

Question 2

Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818)

Answer 2

The sanctity of a contract (a general idea that once parties duly enter into a contract, they must honor their obligations under that contract)

Question 3

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Answer 3

The right of the state to tax

Question 4

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Answer 4

Interstate commerce (trading with other places)

Question 5

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Answer 5

Cherokee Indians (invalid to the Cherokee, a sovereign nation and ordered Worcester and the missionaries to be freed. Property of the Cherokees then was given away through the Indian Removal Act)

Question 6

Dred Scott v. San(d)ford
(1857)

Answer 6

The rights of Negroes under
the Constitution.

Question 7

Munn v. Illinois
(1877)

Answer 7

Railroads & interstate commerce

Question 8

The Wabash Case
(1886)

Answer 8

Limited states regulating
commerce

Question 9

U.S. v E.C. Knight
(1895)

Answer 9

Monopoly in sugar industry

Question 10

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Answer 10

Bakers and hours on the job.

Question 11

Muller v. Oregon

Answer 11

Women and “Brandeis Belief” (a democratic society depended on individual rights such as freedom of speech and the right to be let alone)

Question 12

Adkins Children’s Hospital (1923)

Answer 12

Women’s rights after 19th
Amendment

Question 13

Schenck v. U.S.
(1917)

Answer 13

Free Speech during war

Question 14

Gitlow v. New York (1925)

Answer 14

State’s right to limit free speech