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Civics
11th Grade
12/07/2011

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Marbury v Madison
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Did Marbury have right to job and does supreme court have power to force appointment? Nope Marbury lost. Created Judicial Review
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McCullough v Maryland
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Do state govs have the power to interfere w/the actions of the fed gov and does congress have implied powers? Nope Maryland cannot impose taxes on a fed institution.
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Scott v Sandford
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Does a slave become free when entering free state? No
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Plessy V Ferguson
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Does stat have right to make laws mandating racial segretgation on its trains or does this violate equal protection of 14th amdnedment? created separate but equal
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Brown v Board of Education
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Should there be segregation in schools? NOPE! desegregated schoolz
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Griswold v Connecticut
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does the constitution protect rights of marital privacy or restrict couples ability to use contraceptives? YES, prohibiting contraceptives was unconstitutional. Law was declared unconstatutional.
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Roe v Wade
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Should option of abortion be legal in the US ? does right of privacy include abortion? Roe won and all states were forced to reverse anti abortion laws
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Bowers v Hardwick
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Can state outlaw homosexual relations? YES! THIS WAS BAD THEY SAID HOMOSEXUALITY = IMMORAL!
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Regents of CA v Bakke
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Did U of California violate 14th amendment by using affirmative action? YES! they said race may be taken into account but CANNOT be determining factor ie quotas were banned
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Grutter v Bollinger
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Should race be considered a factor in college admissions? Yep, this one upheld bakke
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Gregg v Georgia
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Does the death penalty violate the 8th and 14th amendments? Nope
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Roper v Simmons
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Capital punishment for minors? ILLEGAL
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US v Nixon
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Can Executive Privilege be used to withold evidence in a criminal case? NO
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Bush v Gore
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Were recounts in florida unconstitutioal? YES they were!the supreme ct decided the presidency!!
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Gideon v Wainwright
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do you have a right to an attorney in ANY criminal case? Yes you do!
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