Supreme Court Cases - Mr. E's Forum: 2006-2007

Date: Apr 5, 2007

Supreme Court Cases

Date: Apr 10, 2007

Marbury v. Madison (1803) Judicial Review was established by this case.

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Conflict arose between the state government and the federal government. State government was declared subordinate to the federal government.

Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) - Court declares that a charter to a private corporation is a contract and that a state government cant impair a contract by a unilateral action.

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Decided that when state and federal law conflict, federal always wins.

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) decided that a slave could never be anything more than property. This case only added fuel to the fire to the start of the Civil War.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) a huge step in the direction of equal rights for all people. A year after the case the court stated that local school systems should make plans for desegregation.

Wesberry v. Sanders (1964) declared that each persons vote stand for equal measure.

Miranda v. Arizona (1966) The rights of the accused were upheld. (Miranda Rights)

Roe v. Wade (1973) highly controversial debate concerning which states can control the right of abortion.

Date: Apr 10, 2007

Wow, Jill you found a lot of important cases!

Wesberry v. Sanders (1964) declared that each persons vote stand for equal measure.

Doesn't this stink that people these days don't take voting as seriously as they did back then? Do you think that elections would go differently if everyone in our country voted? We worked so hard to get this right, especially as women and minorities. Why just throw this right away?

Date: Apr 10, 2007

Jillian wrote:

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Conflict arose between the state government and the federal government. State government was declared subordinate to the federal government.

a lot of good stuff but this one got me thinking do you think insubordination to the power of the people caused a lot of our problems between political and social relationships up until this case. and whats your oppinion on this do you think the call was good or bad just wondering ???

Date: Apr 11, 2007

Those cases are interesting to look at, especially when the outcome isn't something you would expect. If some of those cases were to go on today, do you think they would have the same outcome? Do you think they would be different? What would be the same or different about them? Oh ya, and what was the outcome of the Roe v. Wade case?

Date: Apr 11, 2007

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Date: Apr 11, 2007

Brandi wrote:

Those cases are interesting to look at, especially when the outcome isn't something you would expect. If some of those cases were to go on today, do you think they would have the same outcome? Do you think they would be different? What would be the same or different about them? Oh ya, and what was the outcome of the Roe v. Wade case?

The outcome of this case declared any state or federal law against abortion rights in consistent, declaring abortion legal.

Date: Apr 12, 2007

An important fact of these Supreme Court cases actually explains the importance and decison of the federal government over the decision and ideas of the state governments. In each one of these cases the Supreme Court pulls the juristiction that its not the state govenrment that has the final say but that the federal government does and its also the federal government that has the final say over the constitutinality of certain cases for instance the Marbury v. Madison case.

Date: Apr 12, 2007

An important fact of these Supreme Court cases actually explains the importance and decison of the federal government over the decision and ideas of the state governments. In each one of these cases the Supreme Court pulls the juristiction that its not the state govenrment that has the final say but that the federal government does and its also the federal government that has the final say over the constitutinality of certain cases for instance the Marbury v. Madison case.

Date: Apr 14, 2007

this is one of my favorite court cases:

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
This was a 1969 court case about the First Amendment rights of students. What happened was that a few students woe armbands to protest the war in Vietnam and was suspended and threatened by the principle and the superintendent. The Court held that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom.

Date: Apr 15, 2007

Jill, nice job with the information!...I found this interesting website with a list of Supreme Court Cases... http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/cc/index.html

Date: Apr 15, 2007

Maubury vs. Madison (more in depth) - 1803

It is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal statutes by the Supreme Court of the United States under Article Three of the United States Constitution.

The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of teh Peace in the District of Columbia by President John Adams shortly before leaving office, but whose commission was not delivered as required by John Marshall, Adams's Secretary of the State. When Thomas Jefferson assumed office, he ordered the new Secretary of State, james madison to withhold Marbury's and several other men's commissoins. Marbury and three others petitioned the Court to force Madison to deliver the commission to Marbury. The case was ultimately unsuccessful for Marbury, who never became a Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia.

Date: Apr 15, 2007

"Roe v. Wade (1973) highly controversial debate concerning which states can control the right of abortion."

what do you mean by "which states"? they way you worded thid is a little confusing.

Date: Apr 26, 2007

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Date: Apr 30, 2007

Which states have legalized abortion?

Date: May 3, 2007

Butchie wrote:

Which states have legalized abortion?

16 states have not repealed the decision since Roe v. Wade (making abortion legal) concerning abortion. These states include (AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, DE, DC, MA, MI, MS, NH, NM, OK, TX, VT, WV, WI).

Date: May 8, 2007

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Date: May 9, 2007

As I said before in anothr post Marbury vs. Madison was HUGE. It literally changed the course of the courty because it changed the way the Supreme Court works forever by adding Judical review

Date: May 9, 2007

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