Civics Supreme Court

Supreme Court case that established Judicial Review

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

What is Judicial Review?

• When the executive can review Supreme Court case rulings

• The power of the legislative Branch to create laws

• The power of the Judicial Branch to establish if a law or executive act is constitutional or unconstitutional

• The power of the Judicial Branch to work with the legislative to write laws

Prohibited state sponsorship of recited prayer in public schools by virtue of the 1st amendment "establishment clause"

• wisconsin v. yoder

• mcculloch v. maryland

• tinker v. des moines

• engel v. vitale

School segregation is unconstitutional. Segregation is psychologically damaging to african americans. overturned "separate but equal" by the 14th amendment "equal protection" clause

• plessy v. ferguson

• texas v. johnson

• brown v. board of education

• gideon v. wainwright

Upheld student's speech rights. wearing black arm bands in protest of the vietnam war is protected symbolic speech under the 1st amendment

• tinker v. des moines

• wisconsin v. yoder

• schenck v. u.s

• texas v. johnson

abortion rights fall within the privacy implied in the 14th amendment, women have total autonomy over pregnancy in the first trimester

• mcdonald v. chicago

• u.s v. lopez

• baker v. carr

• roe v. wade

upheld espionage act. declared that the 1st amendment right to free speech was not absolute. speech could be limited if it promotes "clear and present danger"

• tinker v. des moines

• engel v. vitale

• mcdonald v. chicago

• schenck v. u.s

extended to the defendant the right to counsel in all state and criminal federal trials, regardless of their ability to pay

• miranda v. arizona

• gideon v. wainwright

• roe v. wade

• tinker v. des moines

Supreme Court ruled that the white student had been a victim of “reverse discrimination.”

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

• Texas v. Johnson

Which U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that school-sponsored activities and publications could be censored despite the guarantees of the First Amendment?

• Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

• Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)