Court Cases

Marbury v Madison

This established Judicial Review which give the Supreme Court the right to deem a law passed by Congress as unconstitutional

Made the Supreme Court an equal branch of government, made them capable of interpreting the Constitution--checking the power of the executive and legislative branch

Texas v Johnson

Established the burning of the American flag as from of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment

Snyder v Phelps

Established that the first amendment protects the speech of those protesting at military funerals even if that speech is deeply offensive

-Protects offensive speech

Brown v Board of Education

This is what declared "separate but equal" as UNCONSTITUTIONAL and overturned Plessy v Ferguson (Violation of 14th Amendment)

Plessy v Ferguson

Established separate but equal. Upheld racial segregation--deemed it constitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

Timbs v Indiana

Unnecessary fines. incorporated the Eighth Amendments "excessive fines" clause to apply to states.

Remember 8th Amendment

Barron v Baltimore

Dual Citizenship clause. Established that the bill of rights did not apply to the states and it was meant to control Federal power. This decision was the reason my later the 14th amendment was passed with the purpose that states could not violate the rights of their citizens.