LANDMARK SCC and Suffrage

What was established by Gideon v. Wainwright?

• EVERYONE despite the seriousness of their crime gets a LAWYER

• EVERYONE despite the seriousness of their crime gets a trial by an impartial (fair) jury

• EVERYONE despite the seriousness of their crime gets a speedy trial

• EVERYONE despite the seriousness of their crime gets to know what they are being charged with

Judicial review is established

• Marbury v Madison

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Schenck v US

• Korematsu v US

African Americans were not considered citizens of the U.S.

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Brown v Board of Education

"Clear and Present Danger" test established in Free Speech case

• Schenck v US

• West v Barnes

• Engel v Vitale

• Gideon v Wainwright

Separate but equal established Creating "Jim Crow" Laws

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Korematsu v US

Separate is not equal; The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment upheld

• Plessy v Fergusson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Mapp v Ohio

Requires law enforcement to advise a suspect of their rights

• Mapp v Ohio

• Miranda v Arizona

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Miranda v Florida

This amendment changed the voting age from 21 to 18, mainly due to the draft for the Vietnam War.

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

The amendment extended the right of suffrage to African American males after the Civil War. Women of any race were not able to vote yet. In reality, many states enacted poll taxes and literacy tests to still restrict voting rights.

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

This amendment extended suffrage to women; a response to WWI's war efforts

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment