AP Gov Required Court Cases

Congress can't use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Marbury v Madison

• US v Lopez

Race based segregation is illegal

• Engel v Vitale

• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

• Roe v Wade

• McDonald v Chicago

Schools cannot sponsor religious activities

• McCulloch v Maryland

• New York Times Co. v US

• Engel v Vitale

• Wisconsin v Yoder

Right to Keep and Bear Arms for self-defense applies to states

• Engel v Vitale

• McDonald v Chicago

• Shaw v Reno

• US v Lopez

Speech creating a "clear or present danger" is not protected

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Schenck v US

• Citizens United v FEC

• New York Times Co. v US

Political spending by corporations, associations, and labor unions is protected and cannot be limited by law.

• Schenck v United States

• Gideon v Wainwright

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Citizens United v FEC

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

• Tinker v Des Moines

• New York Times v. United States

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Marbury v Madison

Protects the right of a woman to have an abortion

• Shaw v Reno

• Roe v Wade

• Engel v Vitale

• Engel v Vitale

Public school students have the right to wear black armbands in school to protest the vietnam War

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• US v Lopez

• McDonald v Chicago

Ruled that prior restraint was unconstitutional

• Schenck v United States

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Citizens United v FEC

• New York Times v. United States