Supreme Court Cases likely to appear on the AP US Government test
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| Roth v. US | Obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment
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| Gibbons v. Ogden | The Supreme Court broadly interpreted the clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity.
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| Marbury v. Madison | The case in which Marshall first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the Constitution. The decision established the court's power of judicial review.
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| Brown v. Board of Education | Seperate but equal is inherently unequal.
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| McCulloch v. Maryland | Established the supremacy of the national government over state governments.
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| US v. Lopez | Commerce clause does not give congress the power to pass the Gun Free Schools Act
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| Roe v. Wade | The right to privacy gives a woman the right to an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.
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| Schenck v. US | Free speech can be restraint when there is "clear and present danger", such as during a war.
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| Gitlow v. New York | Overturned Barron v. Baltimore and incorporated the right to free speech to the states.
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| Tinker v. Des Moines School District | Symbolic speech of students is protected by the First Amendment.
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| Griswold v. Connecticut | Right to privacy.
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| Miranda v. Arizona | Rights of the accused.
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| Gideon v. Wainwright | Incorporated the right to an attorney
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| Mapp v. Ohio | Incorporated the Fourth Amendment (searches and seizures)
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| New York Times v. Sullivan | Set guidelines for winning libel suits.
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| Near v. Minnesota | Freedom of Press
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| Buckley v. Valeo | "Reasonable restrictions" on campaign contributions are allowed, but limits on campaign expenditures are not. Justified by freedom of speech.
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| Texas v. Johnson | Flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
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| Miller v. California | Obscenity
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| Engel v. Vitale | New York cannot mandate a state-composed non-denominational prayer be read in schools beecause it violated the Establishment Clause.
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| Lemon v. Kurtzman | Struck down a law reimbursing religious schools for textbooks and teacher salaries. Government suppored programs in religious schools must have a primary secular purpose, neither aid nor inhibit religion, and not excessively entangle government, religion.
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| Cantwell v. Connecticut | Incorporated the Free Exercise Clause, recognized absolute freedom of belief.
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