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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Year - 1819Majority Opinion - John Marshall Federalism 1) MD is not sovereign. ...
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Louisianna Purchase
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Year - 1803Man - Thomas Jefferson1) Jefferson thought purchase was unconstitutional. ...
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Jackson's Veto Message
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Year - 1832Man - Andrew Jackson1) Background - Congress rechartered the bank, but Jackson...
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Year - 17981) Background - Outlawed false malicious statements about the Executive and Congress. ...
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VA/KY Resolution
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Year - 1798-1799Men - Jefferson and Madison1) Plant the Seeds for Civil War. ...
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Fletcher v. Peck
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Year - 1810Majority - Marshall1) Facts - Arose from Yazoo land grant scandal. Speculators...
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Chisolm v. Georgia
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Year - 1794Opinion -
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A3
clearly...
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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Year - 1819Opinion - Marshall1) Background - NH revoked Dartmouth's charter. 2) Holding...
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Sturges v. Crowenshield
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Year - 1819Opinion - 1) Holding - NY bankruptcy law could not act retroactively to discharge...
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Ogden v. Saunders
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Year - 1827Opinion - NOT Marshall (Marshall's only dissent)1) Holding - Contracts clause only...
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Calder v. Bull
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Year - 1798Opinion - Chase
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“Unwritten”,
Pre-constitutional...
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The Antelope
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Year - 1825Opinion - Marshall1) Holding - Positive law trumps natural rights.2) Facts -
Law
prohibiting...
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Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. Williams M'Intosh
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Year - 1823Opinion - MarshallJustifications for Taking the Indians Land1) We won the war. ...
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
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Year - 1831Opinion - Marshall1) Facts -
To
assert their sovereignty, Georgia tried and...
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Worcester v. Georgia
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Year - 1832
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Significant
departure...
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Civil War
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1861-1865
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Brown v. U.S.
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Year - 1814Opinion - MarshallFacts - A U.S. citizen confiscated the property of a British subject...
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Shanks v. DuPont
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Year - 1830
Court
ruled that women did not automatically lose the right to American citizenship
by...
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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Year - 1824Opinion - MarshallFactsGibbons was operating with a license from Congress. ...
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Wilson v. Black-Bird Creek Marsh
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Year - 1829Opinion - MarshallFacts Delaware authorized the building of a dam that obstructed...
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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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Year - 1837Opinion - TaneyHolding1) Established that government franchises should be narrowly...
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West River Bridge v. Dix
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All
government grants are implicitly...
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Mayer of the City of New York v. Miln
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Year - 1837Opinion - BarbourBackgroundRequired a list of and a tax on every passenger from...
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The Passenger Cases
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Year - 1849Opinion - No majority opinion. Justices very divided. The Split1) ...
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Elkison v.
Deliesseline
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Year - 1823FactsSouth Carolina passed the Negro Seaman's Act prevented any free blacks from...
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Cooley v. Board of Wardens
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Year - 1851Opinion - CurtisFactsA Pennsylvania law required all boats leaving a harbor to engage...
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Pennsylvania v. Wheeling Bridge
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Year - 1855Opinion - McCleanFactsCongress authorized the building of a bridge that obstructed...
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Prudential Insurance Co. v. Benjamin
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Congress can consent to the state regulatoin and taxation of an interstate insurance business,...
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Paul v. West Virginia
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Year - 1869
The
goal of the privileges and immunities clause is to place citizens of each...
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Corfield v. Coryell
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Year - 1823Opinion - Washington (Circuit Court)Holding
Fish
in state waters are the...
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Crandall v. Nevada
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Year - 1868Opinion - MillerFactsNevada enacted a head tax on all people traveling through the...
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Slavery Dates:In no particular order: constitution; Gag Rule; NW Ordinance; MS Compromise;...
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NW Ordinance - 1787Constitution - 1788Fugitive Slave Law - 1793Ban on international slave trade...
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Groves v. Slaughter
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Year - 1841Opinion - ThompsonFactsA provision in the Mississippi constitution forbade importing...
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Annexation of Texas
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1845Done thanks largely to the election of Polk and the creative decision to annex by joint...
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Barron v. Baltimore
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Year - 1833BOR doesn't apply to the states.
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Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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Year - 1842Opinion - StoryFacts1) Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 - Allowed an owner to seize a...
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Wilmot Proviso
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Year - 1846Put on as a rider to war appropriations bill. Said that any territory gained...
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Compromise of 1850
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Year - 18501) But what about slavery in the territories?
2) California
admitted as a free...
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Year - 18541) Established "squatter soverignty." Settlers would vote on whether they...
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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Year - 1857Opinion - TaneyFactsScott, a slave, was voluntary taken by his master from a slave...
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Year - 1858Lincoln1) Lincoln vowed to Dred Scott if given the opportunity to vote on...
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Debate on Legality of Secession
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1) Buchanan - Believed that secession was unconstitutional, but that the government/President...
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