Civic Literacy Court Cases Questions and Answers 100% Verified
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Civic Literacy Court Cases Questions and Answers 100% Verified
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Established judicial review/Supreme Courts role in the Government
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Granted congress powers to establish a national bank
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
when a federal and s...
Civic Literacy Court Cases Questions
and Answers 100% Verified
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - answer Established judicial review/Supreme Courts role in
the Government
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - answer Granted congress powers to establish a
national bank
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) - answer when a federal and state law are in conflict, the
federal law is supreme
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) - answer Supreme Court ruled that a
charter granted by a State to a company cannot work to the disadvantage of the public.
Private companies cannot injure the public welfare/prosperity of the community.
Dred Scot v. Sanford (1857) - answer Established that slaves are property
Munn v. Illinois (1877) - answer Established that states may regulate privately owned
businesses in the public's interest/set max rates
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - answerEstablished that Jim Crow laws are constitutional
under the doctrine "separate but equal"
Lochner v. New York (1905) - answerDeclared unconstitutional a New York act limiting
the working hours of bakers due to a denial of the 14th Amendment rights.
14th amendments bars a state from interfering with an employee's right to contract with
an employer
Schenck v. United States (1919) - answerSpeech may be punished if it creates a clear-
and-present-danger test of illegal acts. handing out anti-war literature in time or war.
Near v. Minnesota (1931) - answerprotected the freedom of press at a state level
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) - answerupheld a minimum wage law for women on
the ground that a business is a social institution. end of the Lochner era
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - answerThe Supreme Court overruled Plessy v.
Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered
all public schools desegregated. the end of "separate but equal"
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