Civil Liberties 1
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Flag burning is an example of what type of speech.
What is symbolic speech?
This clause can be found in the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
These are laws that promoted racial segregation and disenfranchised black voting rights.
What are Jim Crow laws?
In professional sports, the term G.O.A.T. stands for.
What is the Greatest Of All Time?
This amendment includes the right not to testify against oneself.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This amendment states that there must be probable cause before unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things based on their race, sex, age, etc.
What is discrimination?
These are four examples of voter disenfranchisement.
What are literacy/understanding tests, poll taxes, white only primaries, and the grandfather clause?
This power singer-athlete couple got engaged recently.
Who are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This term expanded the protections of the Bill of Rights to cover state government actions.
What is (selective) incorporation?
This amendment covers protections for the accused at trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE!! Discrimination against this receives the highest level of scrutiny and typically found to be unconstitutional.
What are protected classes (race, religion, national origin, etc.)?
This Supreme Court case struck down Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring separate is unequal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This popular phenomenon has skyrocketed Pop Mart's sales off the charts.
What are Labubus?
The two clauses regarding religion in the First Amendment.
What are the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause?
This amendment prohibits against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This level of scrutiny is used by the courts to decide most forms of discrimination.
What is the rational basis test?
This proposed amendment that would have prohibited discrimination based on sex was never ratified in time by the states.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
At Comicon, the Marvel Cinematic Universe announced their new villain to replace Kang the Conqueror.
Who is Dr. Doom?
The First Amendment protects five distinct rights.
What are religion, speech, press, assembly, petition?
This phrase is not explicitly in the Constitution, but is referenced in a number of amendments.
What is the right to privacy?
These are government programs and policies that are designed to address inequalities from longstanding discrimination.
What is affirmative action?
This is the largest minority group in the U.S.
Who are Latino/a/x's?
Observers jokingly note that this particular release showed promises of "world peace" during the summer of 2016.
What is Pokémon GO?