First Amendment
Vocabulary
Court Cases
14th Amendment
A Mixed Bag
100

This clause in the first amendment states people can believe what they want as long as that practice is not harmful to the public welfare.

What is the Free Exercise Clause?

100

This is the protection of citizens from abuses by the government.

What are civil liberties?

100
This case led to the development of legal racial segregation known as "Jim Crow".
Plessy v Ferguson
100
This amendment allows the Bill of Rights to be applied to the states.
Fourteenth Amendment Bonus: Which case applied this amendment to the states?
200

This Clause U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing a state religion or passing laws that favor or disfavor any religion.

What is the Establishment Clause?

200
This case in 1833 held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states.
Barron v. Baltimore Bonus: What court case overturned this decision using the 14th amendment.
200
This clause in the first amendment states people can believe what they want as long as that practice is not harmful to the public welfare.
Free excercise
200
Wearing a black armband or burning the American flag is considered what
symbolic speech Bonus: What court case established the burning of the flag as symbolic speech?
300

This is used to determine when speech can be restricted under the First Amendment, allowing the government to limit speech if it poses an immediate and severe threat to public safety or national security.

What is the "clear and present danger" Clause?

300

This is the view that most of the liberties and rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are protected from state government actions

What is the Selective Incorporation Theory?

300
This is the policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination is known as
affirmative action
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