We The People
"We the People" are the famous first three words of THIS section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
What are speech, press, assembly, religion, and petition?
THIS document encouraged civil disobedience to fight segregation and includes the phrase "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
What is MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
John Locke wrote that humans have natural rights, including to life, liberty, and THIS.
What is property?
To assert their right to refrain from self-incrimination, an accused person can say, "I plead THIS."
What is "the 5th"?
THIS Amendment states that "powers not delegated to the United States... are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What is the 10th?
THIS 1989 case held that burning an American flag was a protected form of symbolic speech.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
THIS document argued that a large republic wouldn't be a problem because it would help control the ill effects of factionalism.
What is Federalist 10?
When Thomas Jefferson held "these truths" to be THIS in the Declaration of Independence, he was alluding to the Enlightenment sentiment that truth comes from nature and not only from God.
What is "self-evident"?
The 8th Amendment protects against excessive bail and THIS.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
The phrase "we the people" implies unity, an ideal that was clearly contradicted when the Supreme Court upheld the legality of segregation in THIS 1896 case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
In THIS case, the Supreme Court barred the government from engaging in "prior restraint" of the press.
What is New York Times v. US?
THIS document argued for a strong unitary executive.
What is Fed 70?
Separation of powers and "checks and balances" are most associated with THIS Enlightenment thinker.
Who is Montesquieu?
THIS Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees a speedy and public trial for the criminally accused.
What is the 6th?
What is popular?
THIS 1919 First Amendment case established the rule that free speech could be limited if it presented a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. US?
THIS document argues for judges to be appointed to lifetime terms.
What is Fed 78?
Enlightenment thinkers often refer to a mythicized time before governments or complex societies known as the state of THIS.
What is nature?
In THIS case, the Supreme Court decided that in order for everyone to benefit equally from the protections of the 6th Amendment, the government needs to pay for legal representation for those who can't afford it.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The Preamble to the Constitution states that the purpose of the document is to "form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility" and also THESE additional THREE things. Name all three exactly as they are worded in the Preamble.
What are: "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"
The First Amendment protects two aspects of the freedom of religion in two separate clauses: the Establishment Clause prevents the government from promoting religion, while THIS clause protects your rights to practice your religion.
What is the Free Exercise clause?
THIS medieval European document is not nearly as democratic as people often say, but it did provide an important early precedent for the idea of limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
While all three writers of the Federalist Papers were students of the Enlightenment, not all were equally prolific writers. John Jay and James Madison wrote a combined total of 34 Federalist Papers; THIS person wrote the other 51.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Mapp v. Ohio established that if a state obtains evidence against you illegally, that evidence cannot be used against you in court. This is known as the _______ rule.
What is the exclusionary rule?