Bill of Rights
Civil Liberties
Constitutional Amendments
Related Concepts
Acts
100
prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
100
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
amendment defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other people
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
100
law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial
What is exclusionary rule?
100
the nation's first comprehensive civil rights law addressing the needs of people with disabilities, prohibiting discrimination in employment, public services, public accommodations, and telecommunications
What is Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
200
no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
a legal term in United States law used to describe actions that purposefully and discernibly convey a particular message or statement to those viewing it
What is symbolic speech?
200
Banned states from denying African-American males the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
200
section of first amendment prohibiting Congress from interfering with the free exercise of any religion
What is free exercise clause?
200
the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
prohibits Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition
What is the First Amendment?
300
torture, deliberately degrading punishment, or punishment that is too severe for the crime committed (prohibited)
What is "cruel and unusual punishment"
300
granted women the right the vote in 1920
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
What is libel?
300
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
the section of the Bill of Rights that guarantees a citizen a speedy trial, a fair jury, an attorney if the accused person wants one
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
the right of people to make personal decisions regarding private matters
What is "right to privacy"?
400
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
required citizens of a state to pay a special tax in order to vote
What is "poll taxes"?
500
search of an individual or his/her premises and/or seizure of evidence found in such a search by a law enforcement officer without a search warrant and without "probable cause"
What is "unreasonable searches and seizures"?
500
act of implicating oneself in a crime or exposing oneself to criminal persecution
What is "self-incrimination"?
500
prohibits poll tax in federal elections
What is the twenty-fourth amendment
500
admission policies that provide equal access to education for those groups that have been historically excluded or underrepresented
What is affirmative action?
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