Slaves are property not citizens and can be taken into free states if owner wishes to do so. Declaring Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
100
Abortion rights for women
What is Roe v. Wade
100
No prayer in public schools
What is Engel vs. Vitale?
200
Steamboat case regarding river rights. Federal government has more power than State with Interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
200
Separate but equal is constitutional.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
200
No illegal Search and Seizures
What is Mapp v Ohio
200
Supreme Court Chief Justice during Marbury vs. Madison, McCullough v Maryland, and Gibbons vs. Ogden
Who is John Marshall?
300
Decided that States could not tax Federal Government. Think National Bank.
What is McCullough v Maryland
300
Free speech is limited if it presents a clear and present danger.
What is Schenk v US (1919)
300
Suspect must be read rights before questioning.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
300
Supported Freedom of Press against Richard Nixon
What is New York Times vs. The U.S?
400
Midnight Judges
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
400
Executive Order 9066 removing Japanese citizens to Relocation Centers (Prison Camps) is constitutional.
What is Korematsu vs. US?
400
Right to counsel during police interrogation
What is Escobedo vs Illinois.
400
Invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag enforced in 48 of the 50 states.
Freedom of expression.
What is Texas vs. Johnson?
500
Marbury v Madison declared this law unconstitutional thus establishing Judicial Review.
What is The Judiciary Act of 1789?
500
Legalized Jim Crow Laws.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
500
States are required to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys.
What is Gideon vs. Wainwright?
500
The First Amendment applied to public schools, and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom.