AP Government Cases 2018 Flashcards

9806343283	Roe v. Wade	(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy	0
9806346045	Mapp v. Ohio	Evidence illegally gathered by the police may not be used in a criminal trial. EXCLUSIONARY RULE	1
9806348868	BCRA	Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act; banned soft money	2
9806355524	Engel v. Vitale	banned formal prayer in schools, goverment whould not make any religion the 'official' religion.	3
9806362866	Schenck v. US	Can limit free speech when there is a "clear and present danger"	4
9806367025	Regents of California v. Bakke	Race can not be the only factor in college admissions, there can be no quotas.	5
9806371170	Plessy v. Ferguson	Separate but equal	6
9806373976	Dred Scott	United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state. He was considered PROPERTY.	7
9806382229	Miranda v. Arizona	The accused must be notified of their rights before being questioned by the police	8
9806385410	Gideon v. Wainright	ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings	9
9806391827	Wesberry v. Sanders	Ordered House CONGRESSIONAL districts to be as near equal in population as possible	10
9806399370	Fairness Doctrine	A principle that formerly obligated broadcasters to present both sides of an issue	11
9806414956	Brown v. Board of Ed	Overturned Plessy, rules segregation is unconstitutional	12
9806418080	Simpson Mazzoli Act	You must document the citizenship of employees	13
9806426658	Baker v. Carr	One man, one vote Ordered state legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population	14
9806435942	Marbury v Madison	Established judicial review	15
9806435943	US v. Nixon	Holds that executive privilege does not extend to criminal cases	16
9806443223	Texas v Johnson	Ruled that flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. 1989	17
9806445438	Oregon v. Smith	declared that free exercise of religion does not include illegal drug use	18
9806448545	Shaw v. Reno	Gerrymandering to create a majority-minority 12th district in NC is unconstitutional	19
9806453148	Korematsu v. US	California was right to intern Japanese-Americans in camps during crisis of World War II	20
9806459256	McCulloch v. Maryland	Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national over state government	21
9806463561	Citizens United	Political spending is a form of protected speech under 1st amendments/ United States Supreme Court decision that permits almost unlimited spending by the "Super PACs".	22
9806473344	Lemon v. Kurtzman	Struck down state funding for private religious schools	23
9806477217	Tinker v. Des Moines	Students have the right to symbolic speech at school as long as it is not disruptive	24
9806480937	Morse v. Frederick	schools can prohibit students from displaying messages that promote illegal drug use/ Bong Hits 4 Jesus	25
9806487995	Griswold v. Connecticut	Established that there is an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution/ upheld marital privacy & contraceptive counseling	26
9806495935	Miller v California	Holds that community standards determine what obscenity is	27
9806501140	Reynolds v. US	Involving bigamy, the Court decided that illegal acts cannot be defended by "religious duty"	28
9806506071	Free Exercise	Congress cannot pass laws that ban freedom of worship	29
9806509436	Establishment Clause	Clause in the First Amendment that says the government may not establish an official religion.	30
9806513264	Abington School District v. Schempp	(1963) Prayer in classrooms was determined to be in violation of the First Amendment.	31
9806518206	Wisconsin v. Yoder	Amish children do not have to go to school until they are 16---they may stop after the 8th grade	32
9806518207	Libel	A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or property rights.	33
9806522116	Slander	Spoken defamation	34
9806532504	NY Times v. US	Reaffirmed no prior restraint, Pentagon Papers [Free Speech]	35
9806547869	NY Times v Sullivan	Actual malice/ Public figures must prove malicious intent to convict in slander/libel cases.	36
9806561490	Gibbons v Ogden	Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government	37
9806561491	Buckley v Valeo	Candidates can use as much of their own money on their own campaigns.	38