WGU C963 Test (Latest 2023 - 2024)
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- This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Supreme Court declared
that the law conflicted with the U.S. Constitution, and the case established the principle of judicial review wherein the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws passed by Congress and signed by the president to be unconstitutional.
Answer: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- This case concerned the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise,
which declared that certain states would be entirely free of slavery. A slave, who was brought by his owner into free territories and back to Missouri, a slave state, sued claiming that his time living in free territory made him free.The court declared that the relevant parts of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional, and that he remained a slave as a result.
Answer: Dred Scott
- Sanford (1856)
- When a man of mixed racial heritage, sat in a whites-only railroad car in
an attempt to challenge a Louisiana law that required railroad cars be segregated, he was arrested and convicted. The court refused his appeal that the law was in a violation of the equal protection principle because the different train cars were separate but equal.
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- In the early 1980s, following an assassination attempt on President Ronald
Reagan, laws requiring background checks for prospective gun buyers were passed. In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the 1934 National Firearms Act's prohibition of sawed-off shotguns, largely on the basis that possession of such a gun was not related to the goal of promoting a "well regulated militia." 1 / 2
Answer: United States v. Miller (1939)
- During World War II, citizens of Japanese descent living on the West Coast,
whether naturalized immigrants or Japanese Americans born in the United States, were subjected to the indignity of being removed from their com- munities and interned under Executive Order 9066. When challenged, the Supreme Court decision in this case upheld the actions of the government as a necessary precaution in a time of war.
Answer: Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- This case challenged the principle of "separate but equal." It was brought by
students who were denied admittance to certain public schools based exclusively on race. The unanimous decision in this case determined that the existence of racially segregated public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- In this Supreme Court case it was decided that evidence obtained without a
warrant that didn't fall under one of the exceptions mentioned above could not be used as evidence in a state criminal trial, giving rise to the broad application of what is known as the exclusionary rule, which was first established in 1914 on a federal level in Weeks v. United States.
Answer: Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
- This case perpetuated from the arrest of a man who was accused of
breaking into a poolroom and stealing money from a cigarette machine. Not being able to afford a lawyer, and being denied a public defender by the judge, the man defended himself and was subsequently found guilty. Upon his appeal, the Supreme Court declared that the Sixth Amendment required that those facing felony criminal charges be supplied with legal representation.
Answer: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
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