Extra Credit Cases

Question 0

Chisholm v Georgia

Answer 0

• 11th Amendment

- power taken away from a state

Question 1

Commonwealth v Hunt 1841

Answer 1

-says labor Unions and strike are legal

Question 2

Marbury v Madison

Answer 2

-judicial review

Question 3

McCulloch v Maryland

Answer 3

• Federal law comes first, state law comes second

- Bank is constitutional

Question 4

Cohens v Virginia

Answer 4

-federal courts could override state court decisions

Question 5

Gibbons v Ogden

Answer 5

-only the federal government has the right to bend interstate commerce

Question 6

Cherokee Nation v Georgia

Answer 6

THIS IS THE FIRST

-Domestic Dependent Nations- GA can’t take land from them

Question 7

Worchester v Georgia

Answer 7

THIS IS THE SECOND

-states have no right govern DDNs

Question 8

Fletcher v Peck

Answer 8

THIS IS THE FIRST

-a contract is a contract, can’t be voided by politicians

Question 9

Dartmouth v Woodward

Answer 9

THIS IS THE SECOND

-reinforces sanctity of contracts

Question 10

Ableman v Booth

Answer 10

• Personal Liberty Laws were unconstitutional

- North and South using each others precedents

Question 11

Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge

Answer 11

• legislature cannot grant monopoly

- equality of economic activity

Question 12

Scott v Sanford

Answer 12

• slaves are property and cannot sue
• slavery is constitutional everywhere
• can’t take slaves from people who travel North

Question 13

United States v Amistad

Answer 13

-couldn’t participate in transatlantic slave trade, didn’t know what to do with the Amistad slaves