Court Cases
There are limits to the extent that guns can be regulated.
D.C. v Heller
Established judicial review
Marbury v Madison
Evidence obtained illegally cannot be used in a court of law
Mapp v Ohio
No mandatory prayer in schools
Engel v Vitale
Name the 5 protections of the 1st amendment
Students have a fair degree of free speech rights in school (Symbolic Speech)
Tinker v Des Moines
Schools can search students within reason.
New Jersey v T.L.O
Police must inform you of your Constitutional
Rights at the time of arrest.
Miranda v Arizona
There is a limit to executive priviledge
Nixon v US
7th
Schools have a right to limit articles in a school paper
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Allowed the Federal government to pass laws not
expressly provided for in the Constitution's list of
express powers. Case about a bank
McCullough v Maryland
States must pay for an attorney in felony criminal
cases if the Defendant can’t afford one.
Gideon v Wainwright
Clear and present danger
Schenck v US
Which amendment made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal?
24th
Ruled that the second amendment right applied to local and state governments.
McDonald v Chicago
Broadened the meaning of interstate commerce, further extending federal authority at the expense of the states
Gibbons v Ogden
Legalized the right of women to an abortion under certain circumstances.
Roe v Wade
Right to burn a flag
Texas v Johnson
Which amendment gives us unenumerated rights?
9th Amendment
A group of people based on certain characteristics can be separated from society in times of war
Korematsu v US
Ruled Congress could not prohibit slavery in the United States territories and that enslaved African-Americans and their descendants were not U.S. Citizens.
Nonchalant Dred Scott v Sanford
Segregation is legal; "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
Segregation is illegal, overruled plessy v ferguson
Brown v Board
List all of the amendments that deal with voting rights
15th, 17th (bonus), 19th,23rd, 24th, 25th