Name ___________________________________
Date ________________________
This is your Advanced Placement summer assignment for Government. The assignment must be
completed by the first day of school to count for full credit. This is your ticket into class.
Case List by Chapter
Describe the following cases by filling in the boxes below. The cases are organized by chapter. You must
handwrite your answers. Write neatly or no credit will be given. Chapter numbers are given, but for most of the
cases you will need additional information from oyez.org. You may recreate the graph below to better
accommodate the case information and your own handwriting space needs. You must also create an index
flashcard for each case. The flashcard will have all of the information on the case on one side and the name of
the case on the other side. The first case is done for an example.
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Case Name Constitutional
& Year
Question
Marbury v.
Madison
(1803)
McCulloch v.
Maryland
(1819)
Gibbons v.
Ogden (1824)
Wabash, St.
Louis and
Pacific
Railroad v.
Illinois (1886)
United States
v. Lopez
(1995)
Does the supreme
court have the power,
under Article III,
Section 2, of the
constitution, to
interpret the
constitutionality of a
law or statute passed
by Congress?
Brief Facts
In his last few hours in office, President John
Adams made a series of “midnight
appointments” to fill as many government posts
as possible with Federalist. One of these
appointments was William Marbury as a federal
justice of the peace. However Thomas Jefferson
took over as President before the appointment
was officially given to Marbury. Jefferson, a
Republican, instructed Secretary of State James
Madison to not deliver the appointment.
Marbury sued Madison to get the appointment
he felt he deserved. He asked the Court to issue
a writ of mandamus, requiring Madison to
deliver the appointment. The Judiciary Act of
1789 permitted the Supreme Court of the United
States to issue such a writ.
Ruling/Holding/Opinion
The Court decided that Marbury’s request for a writ of
mandamus was based on a law passed by Congress that the
court held to be unconstitutional. The Court decided
unanimously that the federal law contradicted the
Constitution, and since the constitution is the supreme law
of the land, it must reign supreme. Through this case, Chief
Justice John Marshall established the power of judicial
review: the power of the Court not only to interpret the
constitutionality of a law or statute but also to carry out the
process and enforce its decisions.
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Gitlow v. New
York (1925)
Palko v.
Connecticut
(1937)
Schenck v.
United States
(1919)
Chaplinksy v.
New
Hampshire
(1942)
New York
Times v.
Sullivan
(1964)
Tinker v. Des
Moines (1969)
Miller v.
California
(1973)
Texas v.
Johnson
(1989)
Reno v. ACLU
(1997)
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McConnell v.
Federal
Election
Commission
(2003)
FEC v.
Wisconsin
Right to Life
(2007)
Pierce v.
Society of
Sisters (1925)
Everson v.
Board of
Education
(1947)
Zorauch v.
Clauson
(1952)
Engel v. Vitale
(1962)
Lemon v.
Kurtzman
(1971)
Lee v.
Weisman
(1992)
Santa Fe
Independent
School
District v. Doe
(2000)
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Zelman v.
SimmonsHarris (2000)
Mapp v. Ohio
(1961)
Gideon v.
Wainwright
(1964)
Miranda v.
Arizona
(1966)
United States
v. Leon (1984)
Dickerson v.
United States
(2000)
Rasul v. Bush
and Hamdi v.
Rumsfeld
(2004)
Dred Scott
Case (Scott v.
Sanford,
1857)
Plessy v.
Ferguson
(1896)
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Brown v.
Board of
Education
(1954)
Green v.
County School
Board of New
Kent County
(1968)
Swann v.
CharlotteMecklenburg
Board of
Education
(1971)
Reed v. Reed
(1971)
Craig v.
Boren (1976)
Rostker v.
Goldberg
(1981)
United States
v. Virginia
(1996)
Griswold v.
Connecticut
(1965)
Roe v. Wade
(1973)
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Webster v.
Reproductive
Health
Services
(1989)
Planned
Parenthood v.
Casey (1992)
Gonzales v.
Carhart
(2007)
Regents of the
University of
California v.
Bakke (1978)
United
Steelworkers
v. Weber
(1979)
Richmond v.
Croson (1989)
Grutter v.
Bollinger and
Gratz v.
Bollinger
(2003)
Lawrence v.
Texas (2003)
Boy Scouts of
America v.
Dale (2000)
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Smith v.
Allwright
(1944)
Buckley v.
Valeo (1976)
McConnell v.
Federal
Election
Commission
(2002)
U.S. v.
Harriss
(1954)
Near v.
Minnesota
(1931)
New York
Times v.
Sullivan
(1964)
Miami Herald
v. Tornillo
(1974)
U.S. v. Nixon
(1974)
Nixon v.
Fitzgerald
(1982)
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Clinton v.
Jones (1997)
Martin v.
Hunter’s
Lessee (1816)
McCulloch v.
Maryland
(1819)
Ex Parte
McCardle
(1869)
Lochner v.
New York
(1905)
Muller v.
Oregon
(1980)
West Coast
Hotel Co. v.
Parrish
(1937)
Youngstown
Sheet & Tube
Co. v. Sawyer
(1952)
CurtissWright Export
Corp v.
United States
(1936)
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Korematsu v.
United States
(1944)
Youngstown
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Co. v. Sawyer
(1952)
Hamdi v.
Rumsfeld
(2004)
Rasul v. Bush
(2004)
Union Electric
Co. v.
Environmental
Protection
Agency (1976)
Chevron v.
National
Resources
Defense
Council
(1984)
Whitman v.
American
Trucking
Associations