Florida Civic Literacy court cases Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - --Answer --Established judicial review.
Supreme Court now had the authority to overturn a law based on Constitutionality.
Mculloch v. Maryland (1819) - --Answer --(1819) U.S. Supreme Court case
that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that
Maryland could not interfere with it. Established the Elastic Cause.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) - --Answer --Ruled slaves were not free
citizens and no slave had a right to freedom. Dred Scott could not sue because he
was someone's property.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - --Answer --Court ruled that the race-based "Jim
Crow" laws did not violate the Constitution as the state proffered separate but
equal treatment.
Schenck v. United States (1919) - --Answer --Speech may be punished if it
creates a clear-and-present-danger test of illegal acts. First amendment does not
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, protect someone or something if it fails to pass the clear and present danger test, if
speech is meant to result in a crime.
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - --Answer --Internment of Japanese-
Americans during WWII does not violate 14th Amendment Equal Protection
Clause (gets strict scrutiny but national security is a good enough reason to justify
the racial discrimination).
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) - --Answer --Supreme Court decision
that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl
Warren, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were
inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil
Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - --Answer --Evidence illegally gathered by the police
may not be used in a criminal trial.
Baker v. Carr (1962) - --Answer --Established the principle of "one person,
one vote" and made such patterns of representation illegal. The Court asserted that
the federal courts had the right to tell states to reapportion their districts for more
equal representation.
Engle v. Vitale (1962) - --Answer --Held that public schools cannot require
students to say prayers
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2025 Questions and Answers
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - --Answer --Established judicial review.
Supreme Court now had the authority to overturn a law based on Constitutionality.
Mculloch v. Maryland (1819) - --Answer --(1819) U.S. Supreme Court case
that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that
Maryland could not interfere with it. Established the Elastic Cause.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) - --Answer --Ruled slaves were not free
citizens and no slave had a right to freedom. Dred Scott could not sue because he
was someone's property.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - --Answer --Court ruled that the race-based "Jim
Crow" laws did not violate the Constitution as the state proffered separate but
equal treatment.
Schenck v. United States (1919) - --Answer --Speech may be punished if it
creates a clear-and-present-danger test of illegal acts. First amendment does not
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, protect someone or something if it fails to pass the clear and present danger test, if
speech is meant to result in a crime.
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - --Answer --Internment of Japanese-
Americans during WWII does not violate 14th Amendment Equal Protection
Clause (gets strict scrutiny but national security is a good enough reason to justify
the racial discrimination).
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) - --Answer --Supreme Court decision
that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl
Warren, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were
inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil
Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - --Answer --Evidence illegally gathered by the police
may not be used in a criminal trial.
Baker v. Carr (1962) - --Answer --Established the principle of "one person,
one vote" and made such patterns of representation illegal. The Court asserted that
the federal courts had the right to tell states to reapportion their districts for more
equal representation.
Engle v. Vitale (1962) - --Answer --Held that public schools cannot require
students to say prayers
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