Friday, November 7, 2014

Select a Supreme Court case from this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decisions_in_the_United_States


Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Questions

1.   Name and year of the Supreme Court case.

2.   Tell the story about what happened.

3.   What was the controversy? (why was there not a clear decision?)

4.   What was the argument of each side?
--Argument  1          --Argument 2

5.   What was the Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) decision?

6.   Why did the SCOTUS make this decision? (use the Constitution and its amendments for SCOTUS justification)

7.   How did the decision affect US law?

8.   Do you agree with the SCOTUS’s decision? Why or why not?

9. What decision would you have made? Why?