Classic Cases:
Equal Protection Clause:
Marbury v. Madison 5 U.S. 137(1803)
McCulloch v. Maryland 17 US 316 (1819)
Barron v. Baltimore 32 U. S. 243(1833)
Dred Scott v. Sanford 60 U. S. 393(1857)
McGowan v. Maryland 336 U. S. 420(1960)
Mapp v. Ohio 397 U. S. 643 (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright 372 U. S. 335 (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona 384 U. S. 436 (1966)
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States 379 U. S.
241 (1964)
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections 383 U. S. 663
(1966)
Grove City College v. Bell 465 U. S. 555 (1984)
New Jersey v. TLO 469 U. S. 325 (1985)
Maryland v. Craig 497 U. S. 836 (1990)
Gratz v. Bollinger 539 U. S. 244 (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger 539 U. S. 306 (2003)
Checks and Balances:
United States v. Curtiss Wright Export Corporation
299 U. S. 304 (1936)
United States v. Nixon 418 U. S. 683 (1974)
Clinton v. New York City 524 U. S. 417(1998)
Elections:
Baker v. Carr 369 U. S. 186 (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders 376 U. S. 1(1962)
Buckley v. Valeo 424 U. S. 1(1976)
Reno v. Shaw 509 U. S. 630 (1993)
First Amendment: Religion
Engle v. Vitale 370 u. s. 421 (1962)
Lemon v. Kurtzman403 U. S. 602 (1971)
Wisconsin v. Yoder 406 U. S. 205 (1972)
Bob Jones University v. United States 461 U. S. 574
(1983)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
First Amendment: Speech
Schenk v. United States 249 U. S. 47 (1919)
Gitlow v. New York 249 U. S. 47 (1925)
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire 315 U. S. 568 (1942)
Tinker v. Des Moines 393 U. S. 503 (1969)
Texas v. Johnson 491 U. S. 397 (1989)
Reno v. ACLU 521 U. S. 844 (1997)
Life, Liberty, Property:
Korematsu v. United States 323 U. S. 214(1944)
Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U. S. 479 (1965)
Roe v. Wade 410 U. S. 113 (1973)
Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v.
Casey 505 U. S. 833 (1992)
Lawrence v. Texas 539 U. S. 558 (2003)
Civil Rights:
Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U. S. 537 (1896)
Sweatt v. Painter 339 U. S. 629 (1950)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347
U. S. 483 (1954)
Griffin v. Prince Edward County School Board 377
U. S. 218 (1964)
Loving v. Virginia 386 U. S. 1(1967)
U. S. v. Virginia 518 U. S. 515 (1996)
Davis v. Monroe County School Board 526 U. S. 629
(1999)
First Amendment: Free Press
New York Times v. Sullivan 376 U. S. 713 (1964)
New York Times v. United States 485 U. S. 46 (1971)
Hustler v. Fallwell 484 U. S. 260 (1988)
Hazelwood v. Kulhmeier 338 U. S. 25 (1988)
Project Assignments:
 You must use your own words on all assignments
 Cutting and pasting from the internet is unacceptable
 You must provide citations from at least 3 sources for each of these projects or your project will NOT be
graded
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Your work must be done independently - I make assignment changes from year to year. If I find ANY
evidence that you have copied work from another student from - you will receive a "0" and no excuses will
be accepted.
ACTS OF CONGRESS
Judiciary Act, 1789
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Dawes Act, 1887
Social Security Act, 1935
Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938
Hatch Act, 1939
Taft-Hartley Act, 1947
Equal Pay Act, 1963
Civil Rights Act, 1964
Voting Rights Act, 1965
National Interstate & Defense Highways Act, 1956
Freedom of Information Act, 1966
Bilingual Education Act, 1968
National Environmental Policy Act, 1969
Title IX of the Higher Education Act, 1972
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P. L. 94 – 142), 1975
War Powers Resolution, 1973
Endangered Species Act, 1973
Family Education and Privacy Act, 1974
Civil Service Reform Act, 1978
Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, (P. L. 103 – 159), 1994
Family Medical Leave Act, 1993
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 2001
U. S. A. Patriot Act, 2001
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