First Amendment
What is Everson v. Board of Education?
1925 case that determined religious schools fulfill the educational requirements.
What is Pierce v. Society of Sisters?
False and malicious use of words (written)
What is Libel?
Positive acts of government that seek to make the guarantees of the Constitution a reality for all people.
1961 case that decided evidence obtained illegally cannot be used in state criminal trial
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
1940 case that requiring permits for door-to-door religious solicitations was unconstitutional.
What is Cantwell v. Connecticut?
1984 court case that determined nativity scene did not violate the establishment clause.
Protesting legally
What is picketing?
A foreign-born resident; noncitizen
2010 case that made the 2nd amendment enforceable by state
What is McDonald v. City of Chicago?
1925 court case that established the principle of selective incorporation.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
1985 court case that determined Alabama's requirement of a moment of silence in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Wallace v. Jaffree?
Law that protects reporters and their informants
What are shield laws?
What is the Bill of Rights?
1958 case that ruled Alabama trying to subpeona NAACP for records was unconstitutional
What is NAACP v. Alabama?
1931 court case that declared Minnesota's "gag law" as unconstitutional.
What is Near v. Minnesota?
1963 court case that ruled mandatory religious activities in public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Abington School District v. Schempp?
false and malicious use of words (spoken)
What is slander?
Protections against the government
What are Civil Liberties?
1937 court case that incorporated the right to peacefully assemble using the 14th Amendment.
What is DeJonge v. Oregon?
1988 court case that applied free exercise clause to the practice of religion on Native American sacred lands.
What is Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association?
What is prior restraint?