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AP Gov Court Cases

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Marbury v. Madison- 1803   show
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show In a unanimous decision, the Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers.  
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show Under Articles III and IV, no one but a citizen of the United States could be a citizen of a state, and only Congress could confer national citizenship. The Court then held the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.  
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Munn v. Illinois- 1877   show
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show Based on the separate-but-equal doctrine, it was constitutional for Louisiana to have separate train cars for both blacks and whites.  
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show the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions. The court's remedy was to divide Standard Oil into several competing firms.  
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show Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech against the draft during World War I. The case established the "clear and present danger" test.  
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Brown v. Board of Education- 1954   show
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Roth v. US- 1857   show
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show The United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts.  
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Baker v. Carr- 1962   show
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Miranda v. Arizona- 1966   show
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show decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty.  
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Roe v. Wade- 1973   show
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show Decision on the permissible scopefactors in an admissions program, but only for the purpose of improving the learning environment through diversity in accordance with the university's constitutionally protected First Amendment right to Academic Freedom.  
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Webster v. Reproductive Health- 1989   show
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show Ruling in Bush's favor, the court In a per curiam decision, the Court ruled that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting ballots was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  
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14th amendment- incorporation clause   show
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10th amendment- reserved clause   show
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