Landmark Supreme Court Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court decides whether a law is constitutional or unconstitutional using _____________.

• supreme court review

• due process

• precedent

• judicial review

• stare decisis

Suspects cannot be questioned until they are informed of their rights

• Brown v Board of Education

• Miranda v Arizona

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Bush v Gore

• Plessy v Ferguson

Established the Supreme Courts' power of “Judicial Review” to see if laws are Constitutional / Unconstitutional.

Judicial Branch interprets the laws

• Marbury v Madison

• Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier

• Mc Culloch v Maryland

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Loving v Virginia

Established “Separate but Equal”, which provided separate public facilities for both whites and blacks as long as they were equal.

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Miranda v Arizona

• Brown v Board of Education

• Korematsu v U.S.

• Marbury v Madison

A person accused of a crime no matter how poor has the right to an attorney during trial. Enforces the 6^th Amendment.

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Miranda v Arizona

• United States v Nixon

• Loving v Virginia

Ruled that “Separate but Equal” was Unconstitutional.

• Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier

• Marbury v Madison

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Engle v Vitale

Students have the right to free speech at school as long it doesn’t disrupt school activities. (Students wore black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War)

• Loving v Virginia

• Marbury v Madison

• Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier

• Tinker v Des Moines

• Gibbons v Ogden

Legal or social separation of races.

• Segregation

• Lobbying

• Boycotting

• Integration

• Equality

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.

• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.

• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens

• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

• That slaver violated the Constitution

What is called when someone is being forced to testify against oneself?

• self-incrimination

• reflection

• self-process

• judicial review

• stare decisis