court cases

Question 1

marbury v. madison

Answer 1

judicial review

Question 2

mcculloch v. maryland

Answer 2

supremacy of national government over states

Question 3

gibbons v. ogden

Answer 3

strengthened the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce

Question 4

engel v. vitale

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struck down state sponsored prayer in schools

Question 5

lemon v. kurtzman

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struck down funding in private religious schools

Question 6

reynolds v. united states

Answer 6

banned polygamy

Question 7

oregon v. smith

Answer 7

banned use of illegal drugs in religious ceremony

Question 8

schenck v. united states

Answer 8

free speech can be limited when it presents a “clear and present danger”

Question 9

NY Times v. Sullivan

Answer 9

protected a newspaper from being sued for libel in state court for making false defamatory statements about the official conduct of a public official

Question 10

roth v. united states

Answer 10

ruled that obscenity is not protected by free speech

Question 11

tinker v. des moines independent school district

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students do not shed constitutional rights to a freedom of speech in a school

Question 12

texas v. johnson

Answer 12

flag burning is protected by 1st amendment

Question 13

barron v. baltimore

Answer 13

bill of rights cannot be applied to states

Question 14

gitlow v. new york

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established precedent for the doctrine of selective incorporation, thus extending most requirements of the bill of rights to the states

Question 15

weeks v. united states

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prohibited evidence obtained by illegal searches and seizures to be presented in court

Question 16

mapp v. ohio

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the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures

Question 17

buckley v. valeo

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upheld limits on campaign contributions

Question 18

united states v. nixon

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The Supreme Court does have the final voice in determining constitutional questions; no person, not even the president of the United States, is completely above the law

Question 19

korematsu v. united states

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relocation of japanese as a wartime necessity

Question 20

wesberry v. sanders

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-redistricting to give suburbs and cities greater representation in congress

Question 21

baker v. carr

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judicial branch of government can rule on matters of legislative apportionment

Question 22

roe v. wade

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abortion is legal by the Bill of Rights

Question 23

griswold v. connecticut

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law criminalizing use of contraceptives violates the right to marital privacy

Question 24

grutter v. bollinger

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University of Michigan Law School admissions program that gave special consideration for being a certain racial minority did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 25

regents of the university of california v. bakke

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race can be a factor to get a spot in college

Question 26

brown v. board of education of topeka

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racially segregated schools violated the Equal Protection Clause

Question 27

Plessy v. Ferguson

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approved “separate but equal” public facilities for African Americans

Question 28

Dred Scott v. Sanford

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Ruled that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not petition the Supreme Court

Question 29

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer 29

police must inform criminal suspects of their constitutional rights

Question 30

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer 30

the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is a fundamental right applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution’s due process clause, and requires that indigent criminal defendants be provided counsel at trial