exam 2 Supreme Court cases

Question 1

Gibbons v. Ogden i

Answer 1

deciding that New York did not have the right to create a steamboat monopoly on the Hudson River - Article I, Section 8, that allows Congress to regulate commerce “among the several states.”

Question 2

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 2

whether Congress had the power to charter a bank and whether the state of Maryland had the power to tax that bank. The ruling was that congress could.

Question 3

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 3

ruling was that Congress does not have the power to make laws for territories, like one to outlaw slavery.

Question 4

Cooley v. Board of Wardens

Answer 4

ruling was that States can regulate some parts of interstate business if local interests require it.

Question 5

The slaughterhouse cases

Answer 5

the court rejected a claim unconstitutional deprivation of property by states

Question 6

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 6

established the separate but equal clause

Question 7

Burlington and Quincy RR v Chicago

Answer 7

The USSC for the first time bound the states to the bill of rights (5th ammendment property rights here)

Question 8

Gitlow v New York

Answer 8

ruled that the 14th amendment protects freedom of speech from infringement by the states

Question 9

Palko v Conneticiut

Answer 9

refused to apply the prohibition against double jeprody or being tried twice for the same crime to the states as the holding states its not fundamental right

Question 10

McDonald v Chicago

Answer 10

The last bill of rights amendment to be incorporated into the states - the 2nd amendment

Question 11

mapp v Ohio

Answer 11

applied the exclusionary rule in states saying that uncontitutional evidence cannot be used n court