Landmark Court Cases
Court case in 1803 that established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The number of required cases you need for the AP GOV exam.
What is 14?
Overturned the 1896 ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These are Constitutional protections for groups, preventing discrimination
What are civil rights?
This case is the first modern strikedown of congressional use of the Commerce Clause.
What is US v. Lopez?
Court case in 1819 that enforced the supremacy clause after it was deemed necessary and proper to create a federal bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This case helped solidify the Supreme Courts power and established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
You don't want your children to have to go to public school because it will interfere with your religion which believes that the moon is flat and that the earth landing was totally faked. What case would you cite as a precedent regarding your free exercise clause rights?
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
The two clauses regarding religion in the 1st amendment.
What is the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause ?
This case incorporated the 6th amendment right to counsel for defendants.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Court case that upheld the exclusionary rule.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
The incorporation doctrine was established by this amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In this case, the Supreme Court held that some speech is not, in fact, protected by the First Amendment.
What is Schenck v. The United States?
While not a required case, this case established that cemented that due process rights, such as the right to remain silent,must be offered to those undergoing the legal process.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
The ruling in this case states that corporations are people and have first Amendment Rights and that any law limiting campaign contributions is the same as congress abridging freedom of speech and thus unconstitutional.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
Most recent case that incorporated an amendment.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This case established the "clear and present danger" doctrine.
What is Schenck v. The United States?
What is the Establishment Clause?
This case ruled that the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government.
What is Barron v. Baltimore?
This court ruling said that even though you are just a student, you have certain rights, even at school. You are able to use symbolic speech as long as it does not interrupt the learning environment.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This case was brought because of the Pentagon Papers and the argument against prior restraint.
What is New York Times v. US?
These are Constitutional protections that protect individuals from government action
What are civil liberties?
This holding applied to any case in which a state may have failed to apportion its districts in an equal fashion, which is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Baker v. Carr?
The two constitutional principles at bay in the case Mc Culloch v. Maryland.
What is The Supremacy Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause?
In this landmark case, the Court ruled that claims of racial redistricting must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny.
What is Shaw v. Reno?