Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Match the Supreme Court Case with the Constitutional Issue

Groups:

(a) 1st Amend. / Establishment

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(b) 1st Amend. / Free Exercise

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(c) 1st Amend. / Speech

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(d) 1st Amend. / Prior Restraint

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

• New York Times v. U.S. (1971)

• Schenck v. U.S. (1919)

• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

• Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

• U.S. v. Lopez (1995)

Established supremacy of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws over state laws:

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

Congress CAN'T use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a fed crime

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

• McDonald v. Chicago (2010)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• U.S. v. Lopez (1995)

School sponsorship of religious activities (like prayer) violates the establishment clause:

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Tinker v. Des Moines ICSD (1969)

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Compelling Amish students to attend school past the 8th grade violates the free exercise clause

• Tinker v. Des Moines ICSD (1969)

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

Public school students have the right to wear black armbands in school to protest Vietnam War:

• Tinker v. Des Moines ICSD (1969)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

• Baker v. Carr (1961)

• Schenck v. United States (1919)

FREE PRESS v. NAT'L SECURITY-bolstered free press w/heavy presumption against PRIOR RESTRAINT

• Schenck v. United States (1919)

• Baker v. Carr (1961)

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

Speech creating a “clear and present danger” is not protected by the First Amendment

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

• Schenck v. United States (1919)

• Tinker v. Des Moines ICSD (1969)

Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

• Shaw v. Reno (1993)

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

Extended the right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion

• Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

• New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)