Warren Court
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9 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Baker v Carr | The Supreme court was able to make decisions on things that the state use to decide on. |
| Westberry v Sanders | States draw congressional lines based on rural interests, cities are underrepresented, forces a reapportionment of Congress towards cities by making each district have roughly the same population |
| Griswold v Connecticut | married couple wanted to get contraceptives; struck down a Connecticut law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives; established the right of privacy through the 4th and 9th amendment |
| Tinker v Des Moines | students wore black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War; student's rights are not "shed at the schoolhouse gates," symbolic speech allowed |
| Mapp v Ohio | established the exclusionary rule; evidence illegally obtained cannot be used in court; Warren Court's judicial activism |
| Loving v Virginia | 1967 court case that declared all laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional |
| Gideon v Wainwright | ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them; Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments; Warren Court's judicial activism |
| Engel v Vital | ruled that reading a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violated the Establishment Clause. |
| Miranda v Arizona | Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police. |
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