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Court Cases -AM GOVT
Various Court Cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the Marbury Vs. Madison (1803) case do ? | Established Judicial Review |
| What did the McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819) case do ? | It increased authority of the national government, approved the concept of implied powers. |
| What did the Dred Scott vs. Sanford (1857) case do ? | Ruled that noo Black Person could claim United States citizenship. Thrown out in 1868 by the fourteenth Amendment. |
| What did the Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) case do ? | Segregation is legal and constitutional as long as facilities are equal -"Seperate but equal" |
| What did the Weeks vs. United States (1914) case do ? | Ruled that evidence gained by an illegal search by a federal officer is inadmissable in federal courts . |
| What did the Schenck vs. United States (1919) case do? | Reasonable limits can be imposed on the first amendment guaranteed of free speech , no person may use free speech to place others in danger. |
| What did the Gitlow vs. New York (1925) case do ? | The Constitution does not allow freedom of speech without responsibility utterances which involve such dangers of substantive evil may be punished. |
| What did the Olmstead vs. United States (1928) case do? | Fourth Amendment protections extend only to tangible items not to spoken words. Overturned in 1969. |
| What did the Everson vs Board of Education (1947) case do? | No tasx in any amount levied to support any religious activity. Acknowledge the incorporation of the first amendments limits on the states. |
| What did the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka (1954) case do ? | "Seperate but equal" schools for black and whites were declared unconstitutional. |
| What did the Gideon vs. Wainwright (1962)case do? | No person can be denied a court appointed attorney. |
| What did the Engel vs. Vitale (1962) case do ? | Prayer in public schools was declared unconstitutional. |
| What is the School District of Albington Township, Pennyslvania vs. Schempp (1963)case do? | The practice of bible reading and the laws respecting them are unconstitutional in public schools. |
| What did the Miranda vs Arizona (1966) case do ? | Declared that before questioning persons accused of crimes, police must tell them of there rights to remain silent and to be represented by a lawyer. |
| What did the In re Gault (1967) case do ? | Ruled that minors were protected under the fourth, fifth and sixth amendement. |
| What did the Tinker vs. Des Moines (1969) case do ? | Students do not abandon their civil rights at the school house door. Substantial evidence of disturbance has to be shown before free speech could be limited at school. |
| What did the Wisconsin vs Yoder (1972) case do ? | Court upheld the religious rights of the Amish to educate their own children. |
| What did the Roe vs. Wade (1973) case do ? | Court agreed with Roe and upheld her right to terminate a pregnancy in the first trimester. (90 days) |
| What did the United States vs. Nixon (1974) case do? | Ruled that President Nixon could not withhold evidence just because he was the president. |
| What did the Westside Community Schools vs. Mergens (1990) case do ? | Court directed schools to permit student religious groups activities on the same basis as other student activities when the schools operate broad-based extracurricular programs. |
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