Court Cases 1
This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law
McCulloch v. Maryland
Students in an Iowa school were suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam war. Ruled that this suspension was unconstitutional, and that public school students do not "shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door."
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
-Argued that a free republic cannot govern over a country as large as the United States
Brutus 1
States the principles on which the American government is based and gave reasoning behind a separation from Britain
The Declaration of Independence
A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I. Justice Holmes declared that government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
Schenck v. United States
Amish children do not have to go to school until they are 16---they may stop after the 8th grade
Wisconsin v. Yoder
NO racial gerrymandering; race cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative boundaries; majority-minority districts.
Shaw v. Reno
First written Constitution of the US
The Articles of Confederation
Supreme law of the US
The Constitution
case that est. one man one vote. this decision created guidelines for drawing up congressional districts and guaranteed a more equitable system of representation to the citizens of each state
Baker v. Carr
A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the government
Gideon v. Wainwright
The President argues that the publication of the Pentagon Papers is in violation of executive privilege. Result: The barring of the publication of these papers is in violation of the 1st A. Publication does not imperial the public.
New York Times v. US
-Argued that the establishment of a representative democracy is effective against partisanship and factionalism
Federalist 10
Series of amendments to the Constitution that guarantees individual freedoms and due process
Bill of Rights
1995 - The Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not give Congress the power to prohibit mere possession of a gun near a school, because gun possession by itself is not an economic activity that affects interstate commerce even indirectly.
United States v. Lopez
1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Brown v. Board of Education
(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy
Roe v. Wade
Addresses means by which appropriate checks and balances can be created in government and advocates a separation of powers within the national government
Federalist 51
Argues the purpose of having a single executive in government and states that an executive brings the government both the energy of one person & the safety of an accountability to the people
Federalist 70
2010, States can not ban guns because of the right to bear arms and equal protection of the law.
McDonald v. Chicago
The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.
Engel v. Vitale
A 2010 landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that individuals, corporations, and unions could donate unlimited amounts of money to groups that make independent political expenditures.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and states that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Discusses the power of judicial review and argues that the federal courts have the duty to determine whether acts of Congress are constitutional
Federalist 78