WGU C963 - OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT(SOLVED 100%)2023/2024 WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - (ANSWER)This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789. The
Supreme Court declared that the law conflicted with the U.S. Constitution, and the case
established the principle of judicial review wherein the Supreme Court has the power to declare
laws passed by Congress and signed by the president to be unconstitutional.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856) - (ANSWER)This case concerned the constitutionality of the
Missouri Compromise, which declared that certain states would be entirely free of slavery. A
slave, who was brought by his owner into free territories and back to Missouri, a slave state, sued !@#$%^
claiming that his time living in free territory made him free. The court declared that the relevant &*hj
parts of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional, and that he remained a slave as a result.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - (ANSWER)When a man of mixed racial heritage, sat in a whites-
only railroad car in an attempt to challenge a Louisiana law that required railroad cars be
segregated, he was arrested and convicted. The court refused his appeal that the law was in a
violation of the equal protection principle because the different train cars were separate but
equal.
United States v. Miller (1939) - (ANSWER)In the early 1980s, following an assassination
attempt on President Ronald Reagan, laws requiring background checks for prospective gun
buyers were passed. In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the 1934 National Firearms Act's
prohibition of sawed-off shotguns, largely on the basis that possession of such a gun was not
related to the goal of promoting a "well regulated militia."
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - (ANSWER)During World War II, citizens of Japanese
descent living on the West Coast, whether naturalized immigrants or Japanese Americans born in
the United States, were subjected to the indignity of being removed from their communities and
interned under Executive Order 9066. When challenged, the Supreme Court decision in this case
upheld the actions of the government as a necessary precaution in a time of war.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - (ANSWER)This case challenged the principle of "separate
but equal." It was brought by students who were denied admittance to certain public schools
based exclusively on race. The unanimous decision in this case determined that the existence of
racially segregated public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - (ANSWER)In this Supreme Court case it was decided that evidence
obtained without a warrant that didn't fall under one of the exceptions mentioned above could not
be used as evidence in a state criminal trial, giving rise to the broad application of what is known
as the exclusionary rule, which was first established in 1914 on a federal level in Weeks v.
United States.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - (ANSWER)This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789. The
Supreme Court declared that the law conflicted with the U.S. Constitution, and the case
established the principle of judicial review wherein the Supreme Court has the power to declare
laws passed by Congress and signed by the president to be unconstitutional.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856) - (ANSWER)This case concerned the constitutionality of the
Missouri Compromise, which declared that certain states would be entirely free of slavery. A
slave, who was brought by his owner into free territories and back to Missouri, a slave state, sued !@#$%^
claiming that his time living in free territory made him free. The court declared that the relevant &*hj
parts of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional, and that he remained a slave as a result.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - (ANSWER)When a man of mixed racial heritage, sat in a whites-
only railroad car in an attempt to challenge a Louisiana law that required railroad cars be
segregated, he was arrested and convicted. The court refused his appeal that the law was in a
violation of the equal protection principle because the different train cars were separate but
equal.
United States v. Miller (1939) - (ANSWER)In the early 1980s, following an assassination
attempt on President Ronald Reagan, laws requiring background checks for prospective gun
buyers were passed. In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the 1934 National Firearms Act's
prohibition of sawed-off shotguns, largely on the basis that possession of such a gun was not
related to the goal of promoting a "well regulated militia."
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - (ANSWER)During World War II, citizens of Japanese
descent living on the West Coast, whether naturalized immigrants or Japanese Americans born in
the United States, were subjected to the indignity of being removed from their communities and
interned under Executive Order 9066. When challenged, the Supreme Court decision in this case
upheld the actions of the government as a necessary precaution in a time of war.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - (ANSWER)This case challenged the principle of "separate
but equal." It was brought by students who were denied admittance to certain public schools
based exclusively on race. The unanimous decision in this case determined that the existence of
racially segregated public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - (ANSWER)In this Supreme Court case it was decided that evidence
obtained without a warrant that didn't fall under one of the exceptions mentioned above could not
be used as evidence in a state criminal trial, giving rise to the broad application of what is known
as the exclusionary rule, which was first established in 1914 on a federal level in Weeks v.
United States.
