Civil Liberties
True or false: civil liberties are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
False. (that is civil rights)
The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable ____ and ____ by the government.
What are searches and seizures?
During the creation of the second amendment Americans owned this kind of gun.
What is a musket?
In this controversial Supreme Court case, a high school student was persecuted for sporting an armband in protest of the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This 1964 act was the result of movements many years towards fighting institutional oppression.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
One important civil liberty is the right to a ______.
What is a fair trial?
This 1973 landmark case was decided on the basis of a personal right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The primary right granted to US citizens by the Second Amendment is _______.
What is the right to bear arms?
This 1971 case allowed the NYT and Washington Post to continue publishing the Pentagon papers.
What is NYT Co. v. United States?
These rights must be presented to anyone under detainment of the law.
What are the Miranda Rights?
This group of three amendments were created for the purpose of protecting citizens’ civil liberties.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
True or false: If police search your property without a warrant, but there is sufficient evidence of possible harm to others does it violate the Fourth Amendment?
False. It does not violate the amendment
This city’s handgun ban was struck down in the name of the right to keep and bear arms in the Supreme Court case McDonald v. City of ______.
What is Chicago?
This 1919 SCOTUS case involving prior restraint was ruled unanimously in favor of the United States.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Rights that are not explicitly given to citizens by the constitution but are rather implied are called ______.
What are unenumerated rights?
Civil liberties are defined as ______.
Individual rights protected by law from unjust governmental or other interference.
Originally published October 26th, this act was contested nationwide for its perceived violation of the citizens’ enumerated right to privacy.
What is the Patriot Act?
True or false:
The Second Amendment does not include the right to a well-regulated militia.
False. It does.
This Supreme Court case allowed for children to be homeschooled as opposed to attending public or private school.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
This landmark SCOTUS case ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine, depriving black Americans of their civil liberties.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Supreme Court case established the precedent that evidence obtained unlawfully cannot be used in a fair trial.
What is Mapp v. Ohio? (nudie mags in woman’s home obtained by warrantless police)
The Second Amendment was created for the purpose of counteracting this:
What is federal government control (will also take regular government)?
The five freedoms that the First Amendment protects are speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to ______.
What is the right to petition the government?
This case made it so college acceptance could not be determined based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc.
What is Grutter v. Bollinger?