The First Amendment
This Supreme Court Case created the Clear and Present Danger Test.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Gideon v. Wainwright selectively incorporated this Amendment.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
"One person, one vote."
What is Baker v. Carr?
This Supreme Court case upheld the Establishment Clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This court case relates to the racial segregation of schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the "Establishment Clause?"
This Supreme Court case selectively incorporated the 2nd Amendment.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
Outlawed racial gerrymandering.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This Supreme Court case limited the federal government's power related to the Commerce Clause.
What is United States v. Lopez?
This court case established the practice of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
In Wisconsin v. Yoder, the Supreme Court ruled that sending a student to school past eighth grade violated this clause of the Constitution.
What is the "Free Exercise Clause?"
The 2nd Amendment was incorporated to the states through this clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is the Due Process Clause?
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that because the district was shaped in such a clearly odd way, it was enough to prove that there was a very apparent effort to separate voters racially.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This case deals with the Constitutionality of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.
What is United States v. Lopez?
The holding in this case was that corporations should be considered people and therefore their funding of “independent political expenditures cannot be limited.”
In this Supreme Court case, the majority opinion stated “students don’t shed their rights at the schoolhouse gate.”
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The constitutional issue in this case determined whether or not the right to counsel guaranteed in this amendment also applied to felony defendants in state court.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The decision in Baker v. Carr was upheld by this clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
United States v. Lopez also reaffirmed this amendment, which protects states’ rights.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Citizens United led to the development of Super PACS and a significant increase in the amount of ____ money contributed to political campaigns.
What is soft money?
In the New York Times Co. v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled heavily against the Nixon administration for exercising this form of censorship.
What is prior restraint?
This Supreme Court case followed the precedent set by Griswold v. Connecticut.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This case determined the Supreme Court as a unit had the authority to hear cases that related to legislative apportionment.
What is Baker v. Carr?
McCulloch v. Maryland upheld the federal government's power to use implied powers which comes from this Constitutional clause.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Brown v. Board established that this principle, which states that current courts should look to previous decisions for interpretation, will not always be upheld.
What is stare decisis?