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33 Cards in this Set
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The Supreme Court can declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
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Marbury v. Madison (1803)
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Powers granted to Congress by the Constitution are to be broadly construed
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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
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A corporate franchise is a contract, wich the Constitution forbids a state legislature to impair.
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
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The power of Congress to regulate commerce extends to all forms of interstate commerce and to local commerce that affects commerce among the states.
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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
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Negroes cannot be citizens, and Congress cannot control slavery in the territories; the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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The president cannot order the trial of civilians by military courts in areas outside the military theater.
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Ex parte Milligan (1866)
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Equal protection under the 14th Amendment applies only to state action, not to discrimination by privaet persons.
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Civil Rights Cases (1883)
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the 14th Amendment does not incorporate the criminal procedure provisions of the Bill of Rights.
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Hurtado v. California (1884)
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Under the "seperate but equal" doctrine, racial segregation on public carriers does not deny equal protection.
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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a 10-hour-day law for bakers is a denial of freedom of contract.
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Lochner v. New York (1905)
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the federal Child Labor Act unconstitutionally interferes with right of the states to regulate manufacturing
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Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
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speech cannot be punished unless there is a "clear and present danger" that it will lead to evils Congress has a right to prevent.
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Schenck v. United States (1919)
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the 14th Amendment due process clause makes 1st Amendment's free speech provisions applicable to the states.
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Gitlow v. New York (1925)
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The National Industrial Recovery Act providing for self-regulation of industry is unconstitutional.
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Schechter Poultry Corp v. United States
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The court upholds the Wagner Act and returns to a broad interpretation of the commerce power.
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NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
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State minimum wage laws for women are valid; the court abandons substantive due process in the economic field.
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West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
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1st Amendment freedoms have a "preferred position" over other rights.
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Bridges v. California (1941)
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President Truman's seizure of steel mills to assure munitions for troops in Korea is unconstitutional
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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
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Racial segregation in the public school denies equal protection
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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obscenity is defined and held not to be protected by the 1st Amendment.
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Roth v. United States (1957)
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the court begins to make all criminal procedure provisions of the Bill of Rights effective in state prosecutions.
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Mopp v. Ohio (1961)
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A state-sponsored program of prayers in the public schools is unconstitutional
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Engel v. Vitale (1962)
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Courts can hear complaints against unequal apportionment of populat among legislative districts.
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Baker v. Carr (1962)
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in state criminal prosecutions counsel must be provided if the defendant cannot afford to retain it.
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Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
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The rule of "one man, one vote" requires all state legislators to be elected from districts roughly equal in population.
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Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
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Public officials can secure libel judgments against newspaper only where falsehoods are known to be such and malicious
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New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
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State law forbidding birth control information is an unconstitutional invasion of right to privacy.
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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
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suspects under police inquiry must be notified of their rights, including right to counsel, or confessions will be invalid.
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Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
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Persons opposed to war on moral or ethical grounds are entitled to draft exemption as conscientious objectors.
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Welsh v. United States (1970)
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Voided the government's injunction against publication of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
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Limited power of states to restrict abortions, especially in the first three months of pregnancy.
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Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (1973)
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The president cannot claim executive privilege and refuse to yield evidence needed in a criminal trial.
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United States v. Nixon (1974)
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Upheld restricted legitimacy of capital punishment for murder.
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Gregg v. Georgia, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana (1976)
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