Vocab
The power of the Court to declare things constitutional or unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
All of Congress's laws created using their Commerce Clause power are reviewed by the Court using this test.
What is the Rational Basis Test?
Steamboats in and around New Jersey.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
The Supreme Court can declare acts of Congress constitutional or unconstitutional/establishes Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison
How the state governments interact with the federal government AND how the three branches of government interact.
What is Structure of Government
The extent of the power courts have to make legal decisions and judgments.
What is jurisdiction?
This is where in the Constitution you can find Congress's power to regulate commerce.
What is Article I Section 8?
Man who is 1/8 Black rides in a White-only train car.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A Black person cannot be a citizen, so Plaintiff doesn't have standing to bring this case.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
What words literally mean
What is textual interpretation
A judicial order that restrains a party from beginning or continuing an action or that compels a party to carry out a certain act.
What is an injunction?
Congress can regulate these things so long as in the aggregate they impact interstate commerce.
What are local, intrastate and noneconomic activity.
Man who works at a bank won't impose the state tax on the bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Congress can regulate a hotel and its discriminatory policies under its Commerce Clause power and Title II of the Civil Rights Act is constitutional.
What is Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US
Looking towards the future and the impacts this decision could have
What is prudential concerns
A system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
What is federalism?
Congress can regulate activity within a state so long as it doesn't impede upon the state's powers under this amendment.
What is the 10th amendment?
Woman growing medical marijuana for personal use.
What is Raich v. Gonzalez?
Domestic violence is not something Congress can regulate under its Commerce Clause power.
What is US v. Morrison
What the previous case on this issue said
What is Precedent
This is a request that the Supreme Court order a lower court to send up the record of the case for review.
What is a writ of certiorari.
Crime, family law, education, police powers, health and safety.
What are states' powers protected by the 10th amendment?
High school senior brings a gun to school.
What is US v. Lopez?
New York's law requiring ships to log its passengers and whether they'd become wards of the state. Regulation of people for health, safety, and police power is constitutional under the 10th Amendment.
What is Mayor of NY v. Miln
What the framers were thinking when they drafted this part of the Constitution
What is intent