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| 8084861667 | Schenck v. United States | The freedom of speech can be restricted if the words spoken or presented are dangerous. | 0 | |
| 8084875044 | Korematsu v. U.S. | Supreme Court ruled that excluding people of Japanese ancestry from military areas was unconstitutiona | 1 | |
| 8084880078 | Engel v. Vitale | The Supreme Court dropped mandated prayer in public schools as violating the separation of church and state | 2 | |
| 8084884537 | Miranda v. Arizona | The Supreme Court ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. | 3 | |
| 8084888658 | Roe v. Wade | The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected the women's right to abortion before finding the viability of the fetus. Legalization of abortion under certain circumstances | 4 | |
| 8084895564 | United States v. Nixon | Established that the president of the United States cannot use executive privilege for defense against judicial inquiry. | 5 | |
| 8084904265 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Upheld the Louisiana Law and that states could use their police power to enforce segregation | 6 | |
| 8084912955 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in the federal court and that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories | 7 | |
| 8084926678 | Griswold v. Connecticut | The Supreme Court stopped the law that prohibited married couples from using birth control. | 8 | |
| 8084929831 | McCulloch v. Maryland | Upheld the Elastic Clause. The state bank could not charge the federal government | 9 | |
| 8084933561 | Baker v. Carr | Federal courts can hear cases | 10 | |
| 8084937580 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS | Outlawed segregation in public schools because of the inequality which was unconstitutional | 11 | |
| 8084950011 | Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | The court declared that the Fugitive Slave Act prevents a Pennsylvania state law of prohibition of African Americans from being taken out of Pennsylvania into slavery | 12 | |
| 8084972446 | University of California v. Bakke | A state can consider race for diversity in university admissions, but only if other factors were considered. | 13 | |
| 8084992934 | 13th Amendment | Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Abolition of slavery During abraham lincoln | 14 | |
| 8084995329 | 15th Amendment | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Black Suffrage stating that a citizen's right to vote cannot be taken away because of race, the color of their skin, or because they were previously slaves. During Ulysses Grant | 15 | |
| 8085001196 | 18th Amendment ` | After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Prohibition of liquor banning the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol across the nation. Was repealed by 21st amendment During Woodrow Wilson | 16 | |
| 8085003156 | 21 Amendment | the eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Repeal of prohibition During FDR | 17 | |
| 8085012501 | 22nd Amendment | No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. Limitation of Presidents to two terms stating that a person may not be elected President more than twice. Because of FDR and Harry Truman was president at the time | 18 | |
| 8085019916 | Lochner v. New York | a law setting maximum working hours for bakers was ruled unconstitutional in New York. States cannot interfere with employment contracts. | 19 | |
| 8085035025 | Gideon v. Wainwright | The Supreme Court ruled that states must provide defense attorneys for criminal defendants who cannot afford lawyers themselves. | 20 | |
| 8085038312 | Roper v. Simmons | The Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to give a death penalty for child under the age of 18 who was committed a crime. | 21 | |
| 8085041832 | Vernonia School District v. Acton | The Oregon school board's random drug test policy for the student athletes is allowed under the Fourth Amendment. | 22 | |
| 8085045173 | Tinker v. Des Moines | The protest by the students was not harmful therefore, their speech was protected by the First Amendment. This decision defined the constitutional rights of students in public schools | 23 | |
| 8085050529 | Escobedo v. Illinois | Any statements made by a defendant who was not informed of his rights is inadmissible in courts. | 24 | |
| 8085055075 | Bush v. Gore | Florida's court manually ordered a recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election and was ruled unconstitutional. | 25 | |
| 8085065380 | john jay | 26 | ||
| 8085065381 | john marshall | fourth chief justice | 27 | |
| 8085067574 | john roberteser | 28 |
