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WGU C963 - Court Cases - American Politics and the US Constitution Test Bank
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WGU C963 - CourtCases - American
Politics and the US
Constitution Test
Bank
Denning [Date] [Course title]
, Marbury v. Madison (1803) - Answer: Established judicial review. The courts have the power to strike
down laws that they find to violate the Constitution.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) - Answer: The Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship
for black people.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - Answer: Separate but equal - Racial segregation laws for public facilities are
Constitutional as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.
United States v. Miller (1939) - Answer: Upheld The National Firearms Act of 1934 allowing the
government to ban interstate shipping of some unregistered guns unrelated to state militias
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - Answer: Japanese internment is legal holding that the need to
protect against espionage by Japan outweighed the rights of Americans of Japanese descent.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - Answer: State laws establishing racial segregation in public schools
were unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - Answer: Held that the exclusionary rule, which prevents prosecutors from using
evidence in court that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment, applies to the states.
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) - Answer: In criminal cases, states are required under the Sixth
Amendment to provide an attorney to defendants who are unable to afford their own.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) - Answer: The court spelled out the right to privacy for the first time in a
case that struck down a state law forbidding married couples from using any form of contraception.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966) - Answer: Detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be
informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) - Answer: Virginia's poll tax was unconstitutional under the
equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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