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CLEP AG court cases

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Brown v. Board of Education   show
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California Board of Regents v. Bakke   show
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Engel v. Vitale   show
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show Allowed congress to have wider power over interstate commerce. The opinion of the court stated that commerce. 1824includes all kinds of business and trade between nations and the states. 1824  
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Gideon v. Wainwright   show
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Gitlow v. New York   show
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Griswold v. Connecticut   show
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show Case involving Japanese internment camps during WWII. The decision said that needs for national security during a crisis justified internment camps. The court did not deal with the touchy issue of discrimination but rather the national crisis of war. 1944  
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Lemon v. Kurtzman   show
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show Exclusionary Rule - Evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment or other amendments may not be used in court. 1961  
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show Court established Judicial Review. One of the checks on Congress. 1803  
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McCulloch v. Maryland   show
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show Guarantees due process. Must read one's rights while in custody before questioning. Inform that they have the right to remain silent, that anything they say can and will be used against them, and the right to counsel. 1966  
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show Case centered on censorship - government cannot censor something (newspapers) because that restricts freedom of the press. Main issue was government officials were being criticized and wanted to censor the criticism. 1931  
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Plessy v. Ferguson   show
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show It is not a crime to display "indecent" or "patently offensive" material on the internet. 1997  
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show A "fetus" is not a person with constitutional rights therefore protecting a woman's right to have an abortion. 1973  
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show Sustained the Espionage Act of 1917 by maintain that freedom of speech and of the press could be constrained under "Clear and Present Danger". 1919  
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show Nullified the Missouri compromise, further tension between north and south. Slaves were not citizens but property, did not have constitutional protection, were not free just because they traveled to a free state or territory. 1857  
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Texas v. Johnson   show
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show Students may wear armbands as a form of protest. It is a form of speech protected under the first amendment. 1969  
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show Ruled that neither separation of powers, nor the need to preserve the confidentiality of presidential communications alone could justify an absolute executive privilege of immunity from judicial demands for evidence to be used in a criminal trial. 1974  
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Escobedo v. Illinois   show
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