AP Government - Required Supreme Court Cases Review

Established the Supremacy of the US Constitution and federal laws over state laws

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCullouch v. Maryland

• US v. Lopez

• New York Times Co. v. United States

Congress may not use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime

• United States v. Lopez

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Roe v. Wade

School sponsorship of religious activities (teacher led / directed prayer) violates the establishment clause

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Schenck v. United States

Compelling Amish students to attend school past the 8th grade violates the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Engel v. Vitale

• United States v. Lopez

• Baker v. Carr

Public school students have the right to wear black arm bands in school to protest the Vietnam war

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Shaw v. Reno

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

Bolstered freedom of the press, establishing a "heavy presumption against prior restraint" even in cases involving national security

• Schenck v. United States

• New York Times Co. v. United States

• Mc Donald v. Chicago

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

Speech creating a "clear and present danger" is not protected by the 1st Amendment

• Schenck v. United States

• Roe v. Wade

• United States v. Lopez

• Engel v. Vitale

Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent

• Schenck v. United States

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Marbury v. Madison

Extended the right to privacy to a woman's decision to have an abortion

• Roe v. Wade

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• McDonald v. Chicago

The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self defense is applicable to the states

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Roe v. Wade

• Shaw v. Reno