Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights
What is policies designed to protect people from discriminatory treatment by government, businesses and individuals?
He wrote the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Gerrymandering is
What is the act of purposefully drawing voting district boundaries to favor?
Civil Liberties are
What are freedoms guaranteed to us by the Constitution to protect us from tyranny?
The Declaration of Independence was signed and we now celebrate this day every year
He is considered the face of the Civil Rights Act
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
What is Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution?
This court case dealt with gerrymandering
What is Baker v. Carr?
The Civil Liberty being dealt with in the case of Miranda v. Arizona
What is the right to know and be told your rights during an arrest?
The amount of delegates that signed the Declaration of Independence
What is 56 delegates?
Civil Rights Act of ______
When is 1964?
The Constitution was signed
When is September 17, 1787?
Gerrymandering is named from
Who is Gov. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts?
The difference between civil rights and civil liberties
What is civil liberties are basic human rights whereas civil rights is protection against our rights of discrimination?
The authors of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston?
He proposed the first Civil Rights Act
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The first 10 amendments are referred to as
What is the Bill of Rights?
This case held that the equal protections clause prohibits the use of race as a "predominant factor" in drawing electoral district boundaries
What is Miller v. Johnson?
Name three cases that dealt with civil liberties
What is Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona and Brown v. Board of Education?
The Declaration was signed at this continental Congress
What is the Second Continental Congress?
He signed the Civil Rights Act into law and was also John F. Kennedy's successor
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the Preamble of the U.S Constitution?
Gerrymandering is found unconstitutional under this amendment and clause
What is the Fourteenth Amendment and Equal Protections Clause?
These Amendments are protections of our Civil Liberties
What is the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was signed in
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?