Supreme Court Decisions

What case found that racial segregation violated 14th amendment protections found in the equal protection clause (1954)?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• the Civil Rights Cases
• Roe v. Wade

What court case ordered that police must inform those who are arrested of what their Constitutional rights are (right to due process and against self-incrimination)?

• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Gitlow v. New York
• Roe v. Wade

What is judicial review?

• judges serve for a term of "good behavior" (life)
• higher courts can hear the cases of lower courts
• the president can remove federal judges from the bench
• the ability of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional

What court case created the doctrine of "separate but equal" (1896)?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• the Civil  Rights Cases

What case declared abortions in the first trimester to be Constitutional (right to privacy)?

• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Gideon v. Wainright
• Marbury v. Madison
• Roe v. Wade

What Supreme Court Case limited speech in wartime?  That is, you can't tell men not to report when drafted, because it creates a "clear and present" danger?

• Roe
• Schenck
• Griswold
• Miranda

What case ordered that slaves were not citizens, could not become citizens, and that Congress could not regulate slavery in the territories?

• Ex Parte Milligan
• Scott v. Sanford
• Marbury v. Madison
• the Civil Rights Cases

What case ordered that all defendants in all cases have the right to an attorney, through the 14th amendment's due process clause?

• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Roe v. Wade
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Marbury v. Madison

What Vietnam War era case ordered that symbolic speech is protected under the 1st amendment?

• Roe v. Wade
• Griwold v. Connecticut
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Citizens United

What case found that executive privilege is not limitless and that a president has to make available materials related to a criminal prosecution (1974)?

• Kennedy v. the Boston Globe
• United States v. Nixon
• Ford v. LA Times
• the Pentagon Papers