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Inspired by Mr. Beat’s court series,
The Power of Our Supreme Court walks through many supreme court history cases from landmark cases to the more obscure. Matt Beat explains how each case affects us to this day in a way that is engaging, applicable, and easy to understand, even for beginners.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Why I Wrote This Book
What the Heck Is the Supreme Court?
Who Makes Up the Supreme Court?
A Brief History of the Supreme Court
How I Came Up with 100 Supreme Court Cases You Should Know About
100 Supreme Court Cases You Should Know About
- Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
- Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
- Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
- United States v. The Amistad (1841)
- The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
- Ex parte Milligan (1866)
- Texas v. White (1869)
- The Slaughter-House Cases (1873)
- Munn v. Illinois (1876)
- Strauder v. West Virginia (1880)
- The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
- Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. (1895)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Holden v. Hardy (1898)
- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
- The Insular Cases (1901)
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905)
- Lochner v. New York (1905)
- Bailey v. Alabama (1911)
- Schenck v. United States (1919)
- Gitlow v. New York (1925)
- Buck v. Bell (1927)
- Near v. Minnesota (1931)
- Powell v. Alabama (1932)
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
- United States v. Butler (1936)
- West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
- United States v. Miller (1939)
- United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941)
- Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
- Smith v. Allwright (1944)
- Korematsu v. United States (1944)
- United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
- Baker v. Carr (1962)
- Engel v. Vitale (1962)
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
- In re Gault (1967)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Katz v. United States (1967)
- Terry v. Ohio (1968)
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
- Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)
- Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
- The Pentagon Papers Case (1971)
- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- Miller v. California (1973)
- United States v. Nixon (1974)
- Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
- Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (1984)
- New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
- Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
- Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)
- Graham v. Connor (1989)
- Texas v. Johnson (1989)
- Shaw v. Reno (1993)
- United States v. Lopez (1995)
- US Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
- Bush v. Gore (2000)
- Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
- Crawford v. Washington (2004)
- Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
- Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
- Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005)
- Morse v. Frederick (2007)
- DC v. Heller (2008)
- Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
- McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
- Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
- Maryland v. King (2013)
- Salinas v. Texas (2013)
- Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
- Murphy v. NCAA (2018)
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)
- Carpenter v. United States (2018)
- Bostock v. Clayton County (2020)
- McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)
- Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (2021)
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)
- Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022)
- West Virginia v. EPA (2022)
Why the Supreme Court Matters Today
The Future of the Court
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the author
Matt Beat is a teacher, video producer, podcaster, and musician based in Kansas. His YouTube channels Mr. Beat and The Beat Goes On, have accumulated more than 500,000 subscribers and 100 million views, helping expand his "classroom" to around the world. Mr.Beat's speciality is American history, but he also has a big passion for geography and economics. He has a band called Electric Needle Room, known for original indie pop songs about all of the American Presidents. Matt co-hosts an iHeartMedia podcast called Jobsolete. For press and more, visit: https://www.iammrbeat.com/bio.html.
Summary
Inspired by Mr. Beat’s court series, The Power of Our Supreme Court walks through many supreme court history cases from landmark cases to the more obscure. Matt Beat explains how each case affects us to this day in a way that is engaging, applicable, and easy to understand, even for beginners.
Foreword
How the author will leverage their platform (specific ideas):
- He has an engaged following on Patreon who will order the book, share content about the book and leave reviews
- Main platform: YouTube 465k subscribers
- He will create a high quality book trailer and publish it on his channels, including TikTok and Facebook
- He has merch, an online class, or other potential assets that he can offer as bonus material for pre-orders
