Court Cases
This case deals with the freedom of speech and a black armband.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This case states that the the due process clause found in the 14th amendment makes applicable to the states the 9th amendment and woman's right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This case states that equal protections exist under the 14th amendment and that separate but equal was not in fact equal.
What is Brown v. Board?
This is the doctrine of using precedent.
What is stare decisis?
The branch that has oversight and investigative powers.
What is the legislative branch?
This case involves the judiciary ruling that the 14th amendment makes the 6th amendment applicable to the states, and thus states are now required to provide legal counsel for all who cannot afford.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This case, under the 14th amendment, stated that seperate but equal did not denote inferiority--and thus state mandated segregation was constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This case states that, via the 14th amendment's EP clause, that the 2nd amendment and the right to self protection applies at the state level.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This is the type of congress where there are two "chambers."
What is bicameral?
This political philosophy believes in severely limited government, w the exception of the police, & broad individual freedoms.
What is libertarianism?
This case ruled that under the 5th amendment people had right to due process of law. B/c of this we are now read these rights. (2 parts)
This case, through multiple rulings on several distinct issues, stated that racial quotas as employed at schools violated the 14th's EP clause and were thus unconstitutional.
What is Bakke v. Regents (UC Berkeley)?
This case stated the espionage act did not violate people's 1st amendment protections if it was a clear and present danger.
What is Schenk v. US?
This is the process of applying the Bill of Rights to the state level.
What is selective incorporation?
This paper addresses the need for a singular executive with a strong and swift powers.
What is Federalist #70?
This case ruled that the free exercise of religion outweighed a state compelling attendance in schools.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
This case, via the 1st amendment protections, stopped the process of prior restraint so long as publication does not present immediate danger.
What is NYT v. US?
This case ruled that courts could not issue writs of mandamus but did rule that writs are constitutional and established this appraisal as constitutional.
This is a type of issue where people agree on various political ideas.
What is a valence issue?
This is an example of what the president does formally to persuade recalcitrant members of congress through the mass media.
What is the SOTU?
This case deals with the supreme court ruling that redistricting is within the judiciary's realm under the 14th's equal protection clause.
What is Baker v. Carr?
This case determined that corporate donations to political candidates, for advertising purposes, could not be capped b/c it violated 1st amendment protections for companies.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
This case invalidated a NY state law that prohibited commerce in certain NY areas under the commerce clause, wherein the court stated that congress, via the commerce clause, has ultimate jurisdiction to regulate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
This is what it's called when the SCOTUS for an extended period of time starts overturning cases with established precedence.
What is an ideological shift of the SCOTUS?
Critics of the electoral college make THIS argument for what happens at the state level in this winner-take-all election.
What is focus their attention on battleground states?