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Top 27 Supreme Cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.) Marbury v. Madison (1803) | Established the principle of judicial review |
| 2.) McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | Implied powers Supremacy of Federal government |
| 3.) Gibbons v. Ogden (1819) | Regulate interstate commerce/commerce clause's role as a key vehicle for the expansion of federal power |
| 4.) Engel v. Vitale (1962) | Struck down state-sponsored prayer in public schools |
| 5.) Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) | Struck down state funding for private schools |
| 6.) Reynolds v. United States (1879) | Banned polygamy |
| 7.) Oregon v. Smith (1990) | Banned the use of illegal drugs in religious cereom |
| 8.) Schenck v. United States (1919) | Clear and present danger WW1 Protest draft |
| 9.) New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) | "actual malice" libel |
| 10.) Roth v. United States (1951) | Obscenity is not constitutionally protected free speech "prevailing community standards" |
| 11.) Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) | Symbolic Speech Arm Bands |
| 12.) Texas v. Johnson (1989) | Flag burning is a form of symbolic speech |
| 13.) Barron v. Baltimore (1833) | ruled that the BoR cannot be applied to the states |
| 14.) Gitlow v. New York (1925) | Selective incorporation-extending most of the requirements of the BoR to the states Overturned Barron |
| 15.) Weeks v. United States (1914) | Exclusionary rule in federal cases |
| 16.) Mapp v. Ohio (1961) | Extended the exclusionary rule to the states-illegal search |
| 17.) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | right-to-counsel |
| 18.) Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | police must inform criminal suspects of their constitutional rights before questioning suspects after arrest |
| 19.) Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | African Americans were not citizens overturned by the 14th amendment |
| 20.) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | "separate but equal" |
| 21.) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | Segregated schools-reversed the princliple of "separate but equal" |
| 22.) California v. Bakke (1978) | Medical school-quota system denied Bakke the equal protection guaranteed by the 14th amendment-ruled that race can be used as one factor among other in the competition for available places |
| 23.) Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) | Upheld the Bakke ruling |
| 24.) Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | Ruled that a Connecticut law criminalizing the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy-Birth Control |
| 25.) Roe v. Wade (1973) | abortion is protected by the right to privacy |
| 26.) Korematsu v. United States | Upheld the constitutionality of the relocation of Japanese Americans as a wartime necessity |
| 27.)Buckley v. Valeo (1976) | Upheld federal limits on campaign contributions-Spending money on one's own campaign is a form of constitutionally protected free speech |
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