Pre-1960s
The court case that established Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
In 1962, Engel v. Vitale states that school sponsorship of religious activity violates this amendment
What is the First Amendment?
In 1972, Wisconsin v. Yoder ruled that Wisconsin's law compelling Amish children to attend school beyond 8th grade violated this freedom
What is the First Amendment's freedom of religion?
The government who's powers were limited by United States v. Lopez in 1995
What is the federal government?
The court case ruling that was the basis to court's ultimate ruling in McDonald v. Chicago
What is the 2008 D.C. v. Heller case?
In 1954Brown v. Board of Education challenged and invalidated this precedent established by the prior case Plessey v. Furgueson
What is "separate but equal"?
In Tinker v. Des Moines, the court ruled that the public students' First Amendment freedom of speech rights are protected unless this circumstance occurs
What is "material and substantial disruption" to the school environment?
The Wisconsin law that led to the Wisconsin v. Yonder court case
What is the Wisconsin Compulsory Education Law?
The state and year of the congressional district that led to Shaw v. Reno court case
What is the 1990 North Carolinian second-majority district?
The Amendment and clause that allowed the Second Amendment to be incorporated in state and local governments
What is the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause?
In McCulloch v. Maryland, this topic caused the court to establish the supremacy of the U.S. Congress and federal laws over state laws
What is chartering a national bank, and if states could tax it?
The action that led to the court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
What is the black armbands worn in protest against the Vietnam War?
The freedom that overrides the federal government's interests in keeping certain papers classified in New York Times Co. V. United States in 1971
What is the First Amendment's freedom of the press?
What the court ruling from Shaw v. Reno in 1993 prohibits
What is racial gerrymandering?
In 2010, this act was overturned by the ruling of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)?
Charles Schenk did this to cause the Supreme Court to rule that speech creating "clear and present danger" was not protected by the First Amendment
What is distributing leaflets urging resistance to the military draft?
The precedent from the prior case, Betts v. Brady, that was overturned by Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963
What is the precedent where states were not required to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in felony cases unless there were special circumstances?
The name of the papers that the federal government was trying to stop the New York Times from leaking
What is the Pentagon Papers?
The act declared unconstitutional by United States v. Lopez in 1995
What is the Gun-free School Zones Act of 1990?
Citizens United wanted to do this action, but it was prohibited by an act, and ultimately led to the Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee court case
What is distributing anti-Hillary Clinton films?