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| Marbury v. Madison | This ruling established the power of the judiciary to review laws and decide whether they were unconstitutional |
| Fletcher v. Peck | The court held that a Georgia state law violate the constitution's procection of contracts/ established courts power to review state laws |
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward | The court applied the protection of contracts to corporate charters well |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | The federal government was "supreme in its sphere of action." States should not be able to interfere with federal actions necessary and proper to carry out constitutional powers |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | The court broadened the definition of interstate commerce in a way that increased the power of the federal government |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Court declared that African Americans could not be citizens, that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional- in effect, that Congress was powerless to stop the spread of slavery |
| Slaughterhouse Case | The 14th Amendment only extended protection rights, privledges, and immunities that had their source in federal citizenship, not state citizenship |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | The case established the "seperate but equal" doctrine, which held that if facilities for both races were equal, they could be seperate |
| Granger Cases | Some private property, such as railroads, was invested with public interest.It was, therefore, proper for states to excersise its power to regulate the railroads |
| United States v. E.C. Knight and Co. | The court ruled to uphold the monopoly of business trusts |
| Debs v. United States | The court upheld the contempt conviction of a labor leader who disobeyed an order to call off a stirke against a railroad company |
| Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States | Congress defeated Roosevelt's proposal to "pack the court", but did begin to shift its views and to uphold laws regulating business |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | The court outlawed segregation in public schools |
