Review
Vocabulary
Court Cases
Amendments
Extras
100

In this Supreme Court case, Tennessee had not redrawn legislative districts since turn of century, which violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. 

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Baker v. Carr

100

This ideal inherently protects citizens from abuses by the government.

liberty

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

100
Originally, the Bill of Rights limited only the power of what
federal government
200

A system of government where national/state governments share powers

Federalism

200
This prohibits the national government from supporting an official religion.
the establishment clause
200

Amish families taking children out of school after 8th grade protected by 1st Amendment free exercise clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder

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 type of speech

symbolic speech 

300

This Enlightenment ideal claims the authority of government is created/sustained by consent of its people through elected representatives

Popular Sovereignty 

300

This term describes the case-by-case application of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment

Selective Incorporation

300

Used 14th Amendment to incorporate 2nd Amendment to the state

McDonald v. Chicago

300
If someone challenges the constitutionality of the death penalty based on the guarantee of no cruel and unusual punishment this is found in what amendment.
Eighth amendment
300

This term refers to the established legal procedures for the arrest and trial of an accused criminal

Due Process

400

This Enlightenment philosopher greatly influenced the concept of 3 separate branches of government

Charles de Montesquie

400

This term refers to the peaceful protest against laws believe to be unjust and accepting arrest as a means of demonstrating the justice of their cause

Civil Disobedience

400

Decided school prayer is a violation of 1st Amendment

Engel v. Vitale

400
The Thirteenth amendment does what?
abolish slavery
400

federal law that increased government supervision of local election practices, suspended the use of literacy tests to prevent people (usually black people) from voting, and expanded government efforts to register voters

Voting Rights Act of 1965

500

A test the court's used to use to decide if a law violates establishment clause

Lemon Test

500

evidence found by police who disregard this rule can not admitted

Exclusionary Rule

500

An individual is arrested for handing out leaflets calling on men not to enlist in WW1. They were arrested/convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917

SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES (1919)

500

Describe the amendment process

  1. Amendment introduced to both houses of Congress

  2. Approved by ⅔ majority in each

3. ¾ of state legislatures must ratify the amendment

500

 a court order requiring an explanation as to why a prisoner is being held in custody.

Writ of Habeas Corpus

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