Required SCOTUS cases

This case led to the incorporation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Shaw v. Reno

This case opened the door to equal protection challenges to redistricting and the development of the “one person, one vote” doctrine by determining that challenges to redistricting are not political questions unsuitable for the courts to answer

• Shaw v. Reno

• Baker v. Carr

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• United States v. Yoder

This case decided that race-based school segregation violates the equal protection clause.

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

• Schenck v. United States

• Brown v. Board of Education

This case decided that majority-minority districts may be constitutionally challenged by voters if race is the only factor used in creating the district.

• Baker v. Carr

• Engel v. Vitale

• Shaw v. Reno

• McDonald v. Chicago

This case established the power of judicial review.

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Marbury v. Madison

• New York Times Co. v. United States

• Roe v. Wade

This case established the supremacy of the US Constitution and federal laws over state laws.

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• United States v. Lopez

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

• Schenck v. United States

• McDonald v. Chicago

• New York Times Co. v. United States

• United States v. Lopez

This case decided that compelling Amish students to attend school past 8th grade violates the free exercise clause.

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

This case decided that public school students have the right to wear armbands in school to protest the Vietnam War; armbands = symbolic speech

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Roe v. Wade

• Engel v. Vitale

• Brown v. Board of Education

This case decided that school sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Engel v. Vitale

• McDonald v. Chicago