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Marbury v. Madison ANS - This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review
McCulloch v. Maryland ANS - Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled
that federal law was stronger than the state law
Schenck v. United States ANS - A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged
young men to resist the draft during World War I. Justice Holmes declared that government can limit
speech if the speech provokes a "clear and present danger" of substantive evils.
Brown v. Board of Education ANS - 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared
that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Baker v. Carr ANS - case that est. one man one vote. this decision created guidelines for drawing up
congressional districts and guaranteed a more equitable system of representation to the citizens of each
state
Engel v. Vitale ANS - The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First
Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.
Gideon v. Wainwright ANS - A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the
government
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) ANS - Students in an Iowa school were suspended for wearing black
armbands to protest the Vietnam war. Ruled that this suspension was unconstitutional, and that public
school students do not "shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door."
New York Times v. US ANS - The President argues that the publication of the Pentagon Papers is in
violation of executive privilege. Result: The barring of the publication of these papers is in violation of
the 1st A. Publication does not imperial the public.
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