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Supreme Court cases
TExES required supreme court cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marbury v. Madison | establishing for it the power of judicial review, by which the federal courts could declare legislation, as well as executive and administrative actions, inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution (“unconstitutional”) and therefore null and void. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | decided that the Federal Government had the right and power to set up a Federal bank and that states did not have the power to tax the Federal Government. ruled in favor of the Federal Government |
| Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was sovereign. Cherokee Nation was sovereign nation |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights the Constitution gave American citizens. The decision is widely considered the worst in the Supreme Court's history, |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | legalized "separate but equal"; passing of this led to Jim Crow legislation |
| Schenck v. U.S. | the Supreme Court invented the famous "clear and present danger" test to determine when a state could constitutionally limit an individual's free speech rights under the First Amendment |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States |
| Engel v. Vitale | The Court ruled that the constitutional prohibition of laws establishing religion meant that government had no business drafting formal prayers for any segment of its population to repeat in a government-sponsored religious program |
| Miranda v. Arizona | ruled that an arrested individual is entitled to rights against self-incrimination and to an attorney under the 5th and 6th Amendments of the United States Constitution |
| Roe v. Wade | the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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