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21 Cards in this Set
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Chief Justice who expanded the power of the courts and federal government |
John Marshall |
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First African American on the Supreme Court |
Thurgood Marshall |
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Judicial Review means |
courts can declare laws/acts unconstitutional |
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case established judicial review |
Marbury v. Madison |
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Marbury v. Madison involved appointment of-- |
Midnight Judges |
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"Power to tax is the power to destroy" means-- |
States can't attempt to hurt federal institutions by taxing them |
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Case over the constitutionality of the national bank |
McCulloch v. Maryland |
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Doctrine of implied power = |
"necessary and proper" clause |
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Established that the federal gov't regulates all interstate commerce |
Gibbons v. Ogden |
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Legalized segregation |
Plessy v. Ferguson |
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Amendment that the courts said was not violated by Jim Crow Laws |
14th amendment |
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overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and forced desegration of schools |
Brown v. Board of Education |
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Supreme Court claimed that slaves = property and, thus, slavery couldn't be abolished |
Dred Scott case |
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first female on Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
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Appointed O'Connor to the Court |
Reagan |
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second female on the Court |
Ruth Bader Ginsberg |
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Lawyer representing VA family on the Brown v. Board of Education |
Oliver Hill |
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Gibbons v. Ogden was nicknamed-- |
the "Steamboat Case"
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second African-American on the Supreme Court |
Clarence Thomas |
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In recent decades, the Court has emphasized people's right to |
privacy |
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the Supreme Court can ____________ acts/laws by Congress and the President if they exceed the power granted by the Constitution |
invalidate |
