Supreme Court Cases Review

This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Escobedo vs ILL

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Gregg vs Georgia

This ruling said that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Furman v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

This ruling held that the power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824

• Gregg v. Georgia, 1976

• Abington v. Schempp, 1963

This landmark ruling held that basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal statutes by the United States Supreme Court under Article Three of the United States Constitution is legal.

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

• New Jersey v. TLO, 1985

The Supreme Court ruled that the "separate but equal" provision of the Louisiana law was constitutional. The case established this principle of segregation until it was overturned in 1954.

• Regents of California v. Bakke, 1978

• Roe v. Wade, 1973

• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

• Tinker v. Des Moines School District, 1969

McCulloch v. Maryland established the _____ Clause. 

• Santa
• Necessary and Proper
• Supremacy
• Grandfather

Implied powers are powers that are not listed in the Constitution. 

• True 
• False

This decision resolved the election of 2000

• US vs. Nixon

• McCulloch vs. Maryland

• Bush vs. Gore

• Marbury v. Madison

The Marbury v. Madison case is significant because it cements the equal status of the Judicial Branch to the Executive Branch and Legislative

Branch by allowing it to limit the power of these branches. In this sense, judicial review is an example of what principle?

• individual rights

• checks and balances

• federalism

The ___ is the highest law in the United States.

• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation
• Monroe Doctrine
• Constitution