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WGU C963 Test | Contains 25 Questions & Answers

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WGU C963 Test | Contains 25 Questions & Answers 1. This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789.The Supreme Court declared that the law conflicted with the U.S. Constitution, and the case establish... ed 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) 2. 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 Compromisewere unconstitutional, and that he remained a slave as a result. Answer: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856) 3. 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) 4. 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 ofsawed-offshotguns, largely on the basisthat possessionof such a gun was not related to the goal of promoting a "well regulated militia." Answer: United States v. Miller (1939) [Show More]

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