WGU C963 - Court Cases - American
Politics and the US Constitution
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Established judicial review. The courts have the energy to strike down laws that they find to
violate the Constitution.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
The Constitution become not meant to consist of American citizenship for black people.
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Separate however identical - Racial segregation laws for public facilities are Constitutional
so long as the segregated facilities were identical in nice.
United States v. Miller (1939)
Upheld The National Firearms Act of 1934 permitting the authorities to prohibit interstate
delivery of a few unregistered guns unrelated to kingdom militias
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Japanese internment is legal keeping that the want to guard in opposition to espionage by
way of Japan outweighed the rights of Americans of Japanese descent.
, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
State legal guidelines organising racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional,
although the segregated schools are otherwise same in exceptional.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Held that the exclusionary rule, which prevents prosecutors from using evidence in court that
was acquired via violating the Fourth Amendment, applies to the states.
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
In criminal instances, states are required under the Sixth Amendment to offer an attorney to
defendants who're not able to manage to pay for their own.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
The court spelled out the proper to privacy for the primary time in a case that struck down a
kingdom law forbidding married couples from the use of any form of birth control.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Detained crook suspects, prior to police questioning, ought to be knowledgeable in their
constitutional right to an lawyer and in opposition to self-incrimination.
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)
Virginia's poll tax became unconstitutional underneath the same protection clause of the
14th Amendment.
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Students have the proper to symbolic speech at faculty as lengthy because it is not
disruptive.
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Speech advocating illegal behavior is included below the First Amendment except the
speech is possibly to incite "coming near near lawless movement."
Miller v. California (1973)
Obscenity check. Community standards have to be used to determine whether material is
obscene in phrases of attractive to a "prurient hobby" and being "patently offensive" and
lacking in price.
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