Three Court Cases

Three Court Cases

How Supreme Court Judges are selected

• Nominated (Chosen) by the President

• Approved by the Senate

• Appointed by the President

Be able to answer the following questions

• What was the court case about?

• What important principle was established by the case?

• What did this principle say?

Marbury v Madison - 1803

• Marbury sued trying to get papers that would make him a federal judge

• Established the principle of judicial review

• Established the ability of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional

• Judicial branch's key check on executive & legislative branch

Multiple Choice

How are Supreme Court justices selected?

• Appointed by the Senate, approved by the President

• Appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate

• by an election

• Congress selects them

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Courts review and ruling on acts of other branches of the government and determining if a law is unconstitutional is called?

• Supremacy

• Judicial Review

• law review

• sedition

McCulloch v Maryland - 1819

• State of Maryland tried to tax the National Bank

• Court ruled the elastic clause gave government the power to make all laws necessary to do its job.

• Court ruled that states don't have the right to tax federal institutions

• Helped establish the Supremacy of the federal government over the states

Be able to answer the following questions:

• What was the court case about?

• What is the elastic clause?

• What did the Supreme Court rule?

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Multiple Choice

Which state tried to tax the National Bank?

• New Jersey

• Maine

• New York

• Maryland

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What gives Congress the power to do anything they think is necessary and proper to get their job done?

Gibbons v Ogden - 1824

• Gibbons & Ogden both claimed the exclusive right to trade on the river between NY & NJ

• Supreme Court ruled that only the national government had power to control trade between states

• Reinforced the idea that national law trumped state laws

Be able to answer the following question

• What was Gibbons v Ogden about?

• What was the result of Gibbons v Ogden?

Multiple Choice

What do you call trading across state lines

• intrastate trade

• interstate trade

• suffrage

• nullification

Multiple Choice

The decision in Gibbons v Ogden addressed which of the following issues?

• The issue of congressional privileges

• The right of states to tax federal property

• The regulation of interstate commerce

• The supremacy of federal law over state law

Multiple Choice

Which court case established the concept of judicial review?

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Gibbons v Ogden

• Marbury v Madison

• Worchester v Georgia

Multiple Choice

Which Supreme Court case decided if a state had the power to tax federal agency?

• Marbury v Madison

• Gibbons v Ogden

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Worchester v Georgia

Multiple Choice

Who is the Chief Justice during Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe's presidencies

• John Adams

• John Marshall

• Alexander Hamilton

• Benjamin Franklin