Below are the 13 influential Supreme Court cases. Using your notes of all of the cases
Question:
Below are the 13 influential Supreme Court cases. Using your notes of all of the cases below you will create some type of web 2.0 presentation with information about each. You can Prezi, Padlet, Glogster, Powerpoint presentation, or any other type of Web 2.0 technology that is approved. You could also video and upload the video of you talking about your project or complete your project on a poster board and take a picture. Change the colors, add animation - be creative! You can find your information anywhere, just make sure to cite all of the pictures and text that you use. Your final grade will be based on your research as well as how creative you are with the project. Submit your final project to the appropriate dropbox. You will utilize your notes from the day before. Make sure that you are not copying and pasting from the internet, but using your own words and citing your sources.
- Gideon v. Wainwright (Due Process - Criminal Procedure - Right to Counsel)
- Brown v. Board of Education (Racial Discrimination - Public Education - "Brown I")
- Miranda v. Arizona (Due Process - Criminal Procedure - Privilege Against self-incrimination - Statement of Rights)
- Texas v. Johnson (Flag Burning)
- Lemon v. Kurzman (Financial Support to nonpublic schools)
- Marbury v. Madison (Judicial Review)
- New Jersey v. T.L.O. (Unreasonable Searches)
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School district (First Amendment - Freedom of Expression - Public Schools)
- Mapp v. Ohio (Illegal Search and Seizure - Criminal Procedure - Exclusion of Evidence)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (Implied Powers)
- Gregg v. Georgia (Death Penalty)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (Racial Segregation)
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (Affirmative Action)
Project Requirements:
Create a presentation on the influential Supreme Court cases that have affected our laws and government throughout the years. Each case brief should contain the following information:
- Introduction
- Background - What was the case about?
- What groups or people were involved? Where did it begin or start? When?
- What was the outcome of the Supreme Court decision?
- What effect did the outcome have on individual, state, nation?
- Bibliography —where did you locate your sources?
Income Tax Fundamentals 2013
ISBN: 9781285586618
31st Edition
Authors: Gerald E. Whittenburg, Martha Altus Buller, Steven L Gill