Landmarks
Subtitle: historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions
By: writers, Bill Hayes ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hayes, Bill, 1945-
Publisher: Constitutional Rights Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781886253421
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases; Constitutional history -- United States -- Cases
Genres: Cases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inside the marble temple : how the Supreme court works; title: Marbury v. Madison (1803), the first case of judicial review; title: Mcculloch v. Maryland (1819), John Marshall and the bank case; title: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the meaning of the commerce clause; title: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), slavery and the constitution; title: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the separate but equal doctrine; title: Schenck v. U.S., free speech in wartime; title: Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the 14th Amendment and the "second bill of rights"; title: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the end of legal segregation; title: Mapp v. Ohio (1961), the exclusionary rule; title: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the right to legal counsel; title: Miranda v. Arizona (1966), "you have the right to remain silent ..."; title: U.S. v. Nixon (1974), is the president above the law?; title: Regents of UC v. Bakke (1978), is affirmative action constitutional?; title: Texas v. Johnson (1989), is there a constitutional right to burn the American flag?; title: Bush v. Gore (2000), the contested election of 2000.