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The process by which the Supreme Court applies the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

What is Selective Incorporation?

100

This protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government

What is the 4th amendment

100

The significance of Plessy v Furguson. 

What is the establishment of the precedent of "Separate but Equal?"
100

The constitutional principle in McDonald.

What is the 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms?

200

The difference between some rights comes from the constitution, esp the Bill of rights, while others come from protections against discrimination. 

What is the difference between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights?

200

The constitutional principle in Wisconsin v. Yoder.

What is the free exercise clause of the 1st amendment? 
200

A policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment for members of some previously disadvantaged group

What is Affirmative Action?

200

The Constitutional Principle of Marbury v Madison.

What are the Jurisdiction clauses of Article 3?

300

The idea of denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis

What is secularism?

300

The way that the court has ruled on the Death penalty.

What is depending on circumstances and sentencing guidelines the death penalty can be considered constitutional?

300

The major way the NAACP fought for change.

What is litigation? 

300

The two constitutional principles of McCulloch v Maryland.

What are the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Supremacy Clause?

400

The differences in the implications of Tinker and NY Times vs. Schenck.

What is how Schenck's ruling limited the 1st amendment, while the other two cases protected/ expanded it?

400

A court case which ruled that an arrested individual is entitled to rights against self-discrimination and to an attorney under the 5th and 6th Amendments of the United States Constitution. 

What is Miranda v Arizona? 

400

The significance of Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States 

What is that it Upheld Title II of the Civil Rights Act; Congress did not exceed its Commerce Clause powers by depriving motels, such as the Heart of Atlanta, of the right to choose their own customers? (Expanded Civil Rights with the Commerce Clause)

400

The 4 things you need to complete part B on the SCOTUS essay

A: Background of Reguried Case

B: Ruling of Required Case

C: Ruling of new case

D: How they are similar/ different 

500

The three parts of the Lemon Test.

  • Aid to church-related schools must have a secular legislative purpose
  • The primary effect of the aid should neither advance nor inhibit religion
  • The aid should not foster excessive government entanglement with religion
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A court case that strengthened the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, making it illegal for evidence obtained without a warrant to be used in a criminal trial in state court. 

 What is Mapp v. Ohio?

500

The 3 cases that pertain to the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. 

What are Brown v Board, Baker v Carr, and Shaw v Reno?

500

Explain a difference in the ways that Lopez v US and McCulloch v Maryland connect to Federalism.

What is the Lopez case was the first time that the SCOTUS ruled to limit the Commerce clause, thus giving some power back to the State Governments, while McCulloch v Maryland gave the national government more power by giving credence to the Supremacy and Nec and Proper clauses?

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