MCAP Supreme Court

The principle of "separate but equal" established by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v Ferguson (1896) was used to

• provide reservation lands for Native American Indians
• justify racial segregation of public facilities
• end the use of child labor
• expand the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights

In the 1832 case Worcester v Georgia, the US Supreme Court rules that

• the Cherokee Nation should be removed to the West
• the Cherokee Nation could refuse to sign treaties
• individual states could impose laws on American Indians
• American Indians could not live east of the Mississippi

Read the excerpt: "The second question, whether the judges are invested with [given] exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality or a law, has been...a subject of consideration with me... Certainly there is not a word in the constitution which has given that power to them more than to the executive or legislative branches." - Thomas Jefferson to W.H. Torrance, 1815. Which two items are associated with the decision discussed in this excerpt?

• federalism

• McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

• judicial review

• popular soverignty

• Marbury v Madison (1803)

One effect of the Supreme Court decision in Marbury v Madison (1803) was to

• establish the power of the Court to declare a law unconstitutional
• allow Congress to tax income
• approve the president's power to veto bills
• settle differences between the House and the Senate

In the case Ex Parte Merryman, the Supreme Court ruled that the president did not have the right to suspend ______________________. President Lincoln ignored the decision.

• free speech
• pro bono publico
• voting rights
• habeas corpus

This Supreme Court decision was a part of the bank war. It established the federal government had implied powers, and that the federal government is supreme over the state governments.

• Marbury v Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v Maryland (1819)
• Worchester v Georgia (1832)
• Ex Parte Merryman (1861)

The Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v Sandford

• established the precedent "separate but equal"
• established judicial review
• protected the right to habeas corpus
• decided African Americans were not citizens and couldn't sue

What is judicial review?

• the power of the Supreme Court to determine if a law is unconstitutional and strike it down
• the power of a judge to dismiss a case that lacks evidence and punish the plaintif
• the opportunity for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court and change it
• the power of Congress to impeach any justices that break the law and replace them with a new justice

This Supreme Court case ruled that the federal government has the power to regulate interstate trade, including transportation

• Marbury v Madison (1803)
• McCulloch v Maryland (1819(
• Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
• Dred Scott v Sandford (1857)

The Supreme Court is part of which branch of government?

• Legislative
• Judicial
• Executive
• Legal