Case Phrases
"Clear and present danger"
What is Schenck v. United States?
The religious clause of Wisconsin v Yoder.
What is free exercise?
New York state school led voluntary prayer.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
This concept was established by Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
A black family wanted their daughter to go to school in her neighborhood even though it was a white school at the time.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the First Amendment, freedom of speech?
Compelling government interest for students to attend school.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
The clause used in Gideon v Wainwright.
What is the right to an attorney in the 6th amendment?
In Chicago, had to go through difficult registration process to legally own a handgun.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This phrase was established by Baker v. Carr.
What is One Person, One Vote?
A man was arrested in violation of the Espionage Act for distributing anti-draft leaflets during WWI.
What is Schenck v. US?
This is the constitutional clause in McDonald v. Chicago.
Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The Constitutional Clause in Shaw v. Reno.
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
Florida man had to represent himself in his writ of certiorari request to the Supreme Court.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This phrase was used to describe the rights found in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th Amendments if taken together.
What is the penumbra of privacy?
Students wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War, even though they were told that they were not allowed to wear them.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This is the clause and location in Engel v. Vitale.
What is the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment?
Districts must be cohesive and contiguous.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This is the Constitutional Clause in New York Times v. United States.
What is Freedom of the Press of the 1st Amendment?
A student in Texas took a gun onto school property in violation of the Gun Free School Zones Act that Congress passed using the Commerce Clause. The student was arrested in violation of the federal law.
What is US v. Lopez?
This phrase is found in both the 5th Amendment, applying to the federal government and the 14th Amendment, applying to the states.
What is due process?
States were not reapportioning their congressional districts resulting in power being concentrated in the rural areas.
What is Baker v. Carr?
This is the clause (and location) in US v. Lopez.
What is the Commerce Clause found in Article 1, Section 8?
Separate facilities are inherently unequal.
What is Brown v. Board?
These are the Constitutional Clauses used in Roe v. Wade.
What are the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th amendments? (And the 14th)
A government employee leaked top secret documents about the Vietnam War.
What is New York Times v United States?
What is that corporations have the right to freedom of speech just like individuals?
There was a conflict in the office of the president whether the outgoing or incoming president got to hire the people that work in the administration.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These are the two clauses and locations of McCulloch v. Maryland.
What is the supremacy clause (article VI) and the Necessary and Proper clause (Article I Section 8)?