Court Case by Constitutional Issue

Did Congress have implied power to create a bank, and could a state tax a federal entity? (challenge to necessary and proper clause & supremacy clause)

• Marbury v. Madison

• New York Times v. US

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Schenck v. US

This case explored a constitutional issue involving the commerce clause, and whether the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 exceeded the power allowed by the clause.

• US v. Lopez

• Citizens United v. FEC

• Engel v. Vitale

• McDonald v. Chicago

This case was significant and interesting because this prayer was both voluntary and non-denominational. However, the organizations filed suit based on a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which states that a law could not be made “respecting an establishment of religion.”

• Yoder v. Wisconsin

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Schenck v. US

• Engel v. Vitale

This case relates to the other major religious clause of the 1st Amendment: the free exercise clause. By requiring parents to send their children to school, without a faith exception, did it violate the parents' rights to freely exercise their religion?

• Engel v. Vitale

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• US v. Lopez

The main question that was addressed here was whether the prohibition against wearing these armbands (and in general - symbolic protest) violated the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment.

• Schenck v. US

• Gitlow v. New York

• New York Times v. US

• Tinker v. Des Moines

The Constitutional issue that revolved around this case was whether the Nixon administration’s prior restraint was constitutional and if preventing the publication of “classified material” was a violation of the First Amendment’s freedom of the press.

• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

• New York Times V. US

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

This was a First Amendment case and the question was whether the Espionage Act violated the First Amendment and if it was an appropriate way that Congress exercised its wartime authority.

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• New York Times v. US

• Gitlow v. New York

• Schenck v. US

The constitutional issue in this case involved the Sixth Amendment and whether the right to counsel guaranteed in this amendment also applied to felony defendants in state court.

• Miranda v. Arziona

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Marbury v. Madison

The Constitutional issue in this case was whether a woman’s right to have an abortion was permitted by the Constitution, and whether it fit into the broad right of privacy.

• Roe v. Wade

• Casey v. Planned Parenthood

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• US v. Lopez

In this case, the applicability of the Second Amendment to the states was argued, and if the 2nd Amendment’s right to bear arms (interpreted as an individual right) also applied to the states.

• McDonald v. Chicago

• DC v. Heller

• US v. Lopez

• Citizens United v. FEC