Unit 10 Court System

Determined that keeping people separate based on the color of their skin was acceptable. (It was not discrimination.)

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Brown v. Board of Education
• In re Gault

Determined that everyone was entitled to legal counsel regardless of their ability to pay.

• U.S. v. Nixon
• Bush v. Gore
• D.C. v. Heller
• Gideon v. Wainwright

Determined that keeping people separate based on the color of their skin was not acceptable.

• Miranda v. Arizona
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Bush v. Gore
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Determined that individuals must be told of their rights. Confessions can be thrown out if not.

• In re Gault
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Miranda v. Arizona
• D. C. v. Heller

Everyone is entitled to due process...even juveniles.

• In re Gault
• D.C. v. Heller
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Gideon v. Wainwright

This case determined the Supreme Court had the ability to declare a law unconstitutional.

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Marbury v. Madison
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
• U.S. v. Nixon

No one is above the law...not even the president.

• Bush v. Gore
• Marbury v. Madison
• Miranda v. Arizona
• U.S. v. Nixon

Determined "Executive Privilege" could only be used when national security was threatened.

• Bush v. Gore
• U.S. v. Nixon
• D.C. v. Heller
• Miranda v. Arizona

Determined the FL Supreme Court could not order a recount of ballots.

• Marbury v. Madison
• Bush v. Gore
• U.S. v. Nixon
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

Students don't shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech at the "schoolhouse gate."

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
• D.C. v. Heller
• U.S. v. Nixon