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Famous Court Cases
Flashcards of famous court cases for the AP Government & Politics exam.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | Established Judicial Review |
| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | Established national supremacy, elastic clause & inability to tax a federal institution |
| Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | Allowed Congress to have constitutional control of economy |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Established separate but equal and allowed Jim Crow laws. |
| Weeks v. U.S. (1914) | Established exclusionary rule at the FEDERAL level. |
| Gitlow v. New York (1925) | Federalized the Bill of Rights;all states had to comply with them. |
| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | School segregation was named unconstitutional and overturned separate but equal. |
| Mapp v. Ohio (1961) | Established exclusionary rule at STATE level. |
| Gideon v. Wanwright (1963) | States must supply lawyers if a defendant can't afford one. |
| Miranda v. Arizona (1965) | Established Miranda rights. |
| Griswald v. Connecticut (1965) | Established right to privacy. |
| Miller v. California (1973) | Community standards used to decide if something is obscene. |
| Roe v. Wade (1973) | Established national abortion guidelines. |
| Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) | Allowed colleges to use affirmative action. |
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