AP Gov Required Court Cases

Voted against public prayer and Bible readings in school

• Board of Ed. v. Earls

• Engel v. Vitale

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Gideon v. Wainwright

Ruled that courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys.

• United States v. Nixon

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gideon v. Wainwright

Showed that the president is accountable for obeying the law.

• United States v. Nixon

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

The first Supreme Court case to decide that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

• District of Columbia v. Heller

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

This court case defined freedom of speech in schools for studnets

• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Plessy v. Ferguson

No state shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”  

• Supremacy Clause

• Equal Protection Clause

• Elastic Clause

• Necessary and Proper Clause

Slaves were considered property; therefore, you may bring your slave anywhere-Chief Justice Roger Taney

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• McCulloch vs Maryland

• Worcester vs. Georgia

• Marbury vs. Madison

Ruled that juvenile courts should have different procedures, but due process rights still apply to children.

• In Re Gault 

• Miranda v. Arizona 

• Gideon v. Wainwright 

• Tinker v. Des Moines

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the Florida Supreme Court's plan for recounting ballots violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

• U.S. v. Nixon (1974)

• Bush v. Gore (2000)