Florida Civic Literacy (Study guide for court cases)

Florida Civic Literacy (Study guide for court cases) Marbury v. Madison (1803) - CORRECT ANSWER-Established judicial review. Supreme Court now had the authority to overturn a law based on Constitutionality. Mculloch v. Maryland (1819) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT ANSWER-Speech may be punished if it creates a clear-and-present-danger test of illegal acts. First amendment does not 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) - CORRECT ANSWER-Internment of JapaneseAmericans 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) - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT ANSWER-Evidence illegally gathered by the police may not be used in a criminal trial. Baker v. Carr (1962) - CORRECT ANSWER-Established the