Losing my Religion
This case from the 1960s focuses on the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and the application of this clause in public school.
What is "Engel v Vitale?"
Out of all 15 Required Supreme Court Cases for AP Government and Politics, these two cases involved fire arms in the facts of the case.
What are "McDonald" and "Lopez?"
Like "Tinker v Des Moines," the case of "NY Times Co. v United States" involved the leaking of classified documents from this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
An example of Judicial Activism, this case led to the right of a defendant in a criminal trial to have the assistance of counsel, which is a right under the 6th Amendment and 14th Amendment.
What is "Gideon v Wainwright?"
The Citizens United Case deals with which amendment of the Constitution?
What is the First Amendment?
Not to be confused with a tiny Jedi Master strong in the Force, this case involved the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause which protects the right of individuals to exercise their religious beliefs. In this case, we are talking about the Amish or Mennonites.
What is "Wisconsin v Yoder?"
In "McDonald v Chicago" the court ruled in favor of McDonald. The second amendment now applies to state and local governments through the use of this doctrine. Make Good Choices.
What is "selective incorporation?"
President Richard Nixon argued against the leak of classified documents from the Cold War conflict based on this concept which is meant to protect national security.
What is "prior restraint?"
This Supreme Court Case found that abortion is covered by the right to privacy in 1973.
What is "Roe v Wade?"
In Citizens United, which allows large companies to donate as much money as they want, the media came up with this three word phrase about conglomerates.
What is "Corporations are people?"
In "Engel v Vitale," the Supreme Court came to the following conclusion in their majority ruling about school prayer.
What is, "the state cannot organize prayer in public school even if the prayer is non-denominational and students are given options for non-participation?"
Although "United States v Lopez" is about a student who brought a gun to school, the case is not about 2nd Amendment rights. Instead, it is about this concept which deals with whether the states or the national government has the power to pass regulations banning fire arms in school zones.
What is Federalism?
In the NY Times required case, the Supreme Court ruled in the following way.
What is "Prior Restraint to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers" is unconstitutional based on first amendment rights?"
These two amendments deal with the right to privacy and the right to have an attorney even if you cannot afford one.
What are the 4th Amendment and the 6th Amendment?
This is the main question that Citizens United answers.
What is "Are the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's Disclaimer, disclosure and reporting requirements constitutional?"
In "Wisconsin v Yoder," the Supreme Court ruled in the following way. Your answer must include the use of at least two constitutional amendments.
What is "the free exercise clause of the First Amendment outweighs the State's interest in compelling school attendance, especially when incorporating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment?"
In "United States v Lopez," the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Lopez arguing that Congress power to legislate under this clause is exceeded.
What is the Commerce Clause?
In his dissenting opinion, Mr. Chief Justice Burger made the following argument.
While "Gideon" is supposed to grant public defenders to people that cannot afford attorneys so that they can be defended properly, any one of these is an obstacle that prevents this from happening.
What are, "Poor working conditions for public defenders, judges getting into fights with public defenders, states charging people for public defenders (especially Florida), public defenders have too many cases to work, public defenders cause over 90% of their clients to plead guilty."
Who are John Marshall, Earl Warren, William H Renquist, Warren Burger, Fred Vinson, Edward Douglass Wright, and John Roberts.
In "Wisconsin v Yoder," while the decision was unanimous, Justice Douglas argued against the majority using the following reasoning.
What is "a child who wishes to attend public school in conflict with the wishes of his/her/their parents should not be prevented from doing so?"
In the Supreme Court Case "United States v Lopez," the facts of the case involve this act from Congress in 1990 which made it a federal offense for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that the individual knows...is a school zone.
What is the Gun Free School Zones Act?
As a consequence of the decision in "NY Times Co. v US," President Nixon engaged in the following actions.
What is, "creation of a group of people to stop information leaking in the White House to the public, but the group ended up spying on Nixon’s political opponents. They burglarized the Democratic Party Headquarters in what came to be known as Watergate, a scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation."
This is the name of the case that overturned Roe v Wade after nearly fifty years of precedent.
What is "Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization?"
Out of the required Supreme Court Cases, this is the number that the Court has ruled on in a unanimous fashion.
What is five cases?