U.S. Government Honors Unit 1 Test Questions and Answers Already Passed

US Government Honors (Court Cases) Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Marbury v. Madison - ANSWER (1803) Established principle of judicial review (the Court's power to rule an act of Congress unconstitutional). The Court did not again invoke this power until the Dred Scott decision in 1857. McCulloch v. Maryland - ANSWER (1819) Established that the federal government's power must be considered supreme within its sphere and that states do not have the power to interfere with the exercise of federal powers. Gibbons v. Ogden - ANSWER (1824) Interpreted Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce to include all forms of business, not just the exchange of goods. Barron v. Baltimore - ANSWER (1833) Established a precedent on whether the United States Bill of Rights could be applied to state governments. Dred Scott v. Sanford - ANSWER (1857) Effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise and declared slaves to be property, not citizens. Slaughterhouse Cases - ANSWER (1873) Drew a distinction between state and federal citizenship and ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment does not guard against all instances of state discrimination. In its ruling, the Court considered the amendment's original purpose; to protect citizenship rights of freed slaves.