Supreme Court Cases

This Established Judicial Review

• Marbury v. Madison

• Ohio v. Mapp

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Roe V. Wade

Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law. Known as Federlism

• Marbury v. Madison

• Ohio v. Mapp

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Roe V. Wade

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.

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board

• Schenck v. United States

• Roe V. Wade

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board

• Schenck v. United States

• Roe V. Wade

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

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board

• Schenck v. United States

• Baker v. Carr

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

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board

• Schenck v. United States

• Baker v. Carr

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.

• Engel v. Vitale

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Schenck v. United States

• Baker v. Carr

A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the government

• Engel v. Vitale

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Schenck v. United States

• Baker v. Carr

tudents 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."

• Engel v. Vitale

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Schenck v. United States

• Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

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."

• Engel v. Vitale

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Schenck v. United States

• Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)