1 Questions & Detailed Answers (A+ guide
Quiz____?Brown v. Board of Education - Answer✓✓ 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Quiz____?McCullouch v Maryland - Answer✓✓ the Supreme Court ruled that national law is superior to state law. Could not tax the U.S. bank at the state level
Quiz____?Gibbons v. Ogden - Answer✓✓ Commerce clause case (1824). Decision greatly enlarged Congress' interstate commerce clause power by broadly defining the meaning of "commerce" to include virtually all types of economic activity. Pair with Lopez & Morrison cases (limiting commerce power).
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2 Quiz____?Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier - Answer✓✓ U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that the First Amendment does not protect all types of student speech in school
Quiz____?Gideon v. Wainwright - Answer✓✓ a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys.
RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY
Quiz____?Marbury v. Madison (1803) - Answer✓✓ Established judicial review; "midnight judges;" John Marshall; power of the Supreme Court.
Quiz____?Plessy v. Ferguson - Answer✓✓ 2 / 3
3 a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Quiz____?Schenck v. United States - Answer✓✓ A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I. Justice Holmes declared that government can limit speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
Quiz____?United States v. Nixon - Answer✓✓ The 1974 case in which the Supreme Court unanimously held that the doctrine of executive privilege was implicit in the Constitution but could not be extended to protect documents relevant to criminal prosecutions
Quiz____?District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) - Answer✓✓ Ruled the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for lawful, private use (Roberts Court)
Quiz____?Roe v. Wade -
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