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13 Cards in this Set
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marbury v madison |
established the supreme court as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws |
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fletcher v peck |
upholds the sanctity of contracts, and the supreme court's ability to uphold them over state courts |
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mcculloch vs maryland |
states cannot tax the federal government; declared the constitutionality of the bank of the united states |
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dartmouth college v woodward |
upholds the sanctity of contracts |
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missouri compromise |
declared missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state and declared a line above which there could be no slave states |
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gibbons v odgen |
clarified the commerce clause and affirmed congressional power over interstate commerce |
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cherokee nation v georgia |
established a "trust relationship" with the tribes directly under federal authority |
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worcester v georgia |
established tribes as distinct political communities with territorial boundaries within which their authority is exclusive |
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commonwealth v hunt |
labor unions were legal |
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compromise of 1850 |
ended slave trade in washington dc, california came in as a free state, rest of mexican cession was under popular sovereignty regarding slavery |
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kansas-nebraska act |
rendered missouri compromise line null and void, resulted in bleeding kansas and escalating tensions |
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dred scott v sanford |
ruled that federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the united states; ruled missouri compromise unconstitutional; african americans are not citizens |
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plessy v ferguson |
separate but equal laws declared constitutional |
