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1. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned

2. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools

3. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment

4. Separate but equal for races

5. You can burn the flag

6. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation

7. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act

8. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested

9. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks

10. Giving money to political campaign = free speech - so wealthy people can now spend as much of their own money as they want if they choose to run for federal office

11. Established judicial review

12. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found

13. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce

14. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional

15. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy

16. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded

17. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause

18. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action

19. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)

20. Gave states more power to regulate abortion

21. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional

22. States cannot set term limits on members of congress

23. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts

24. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times

25. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity