Key Concepts
Which Amendment?
Name That Case
Legal Language
Potpourri
100
This is the supreme law of the nation. It empowers and limits government; it creates a framework for American government, but it also limits the exercise of governing authority by protecting individual rights.
What is the Constitution?
100
This amendment prohibits excessive bail and monetary fines and any punishments that are cruel and unusual. The framers insisted on constitutional guarantees that would protect the guilty as well as the innocent against the potentially abusive prosecutorial powers of the government
What is the Eighth Amendment?
100
Estelle Griswold identified two women whose health clearly would be endangered by a pregnancy and enlisted them to bring suit against the state for refusing to allow them to buy birth control devices.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)?
100
Voir dire
What is a preliminary examination of a witness or a juror by a judge or counsel?
100
Where are we?
What is the National Constitution Center?
200
These define liberal democracy, delimitating the relationship between the individual and the state. They are typically understood as freedom from undue governmental influence.
What are Civil Liberties?
200
This amendment prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy and provides for grand juries and due process of law.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
Brandenburg, a KKK leader in Ohio, allowed a television station to broadcast the KKK rally he was leading.
What is Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)?
200
Per curiam opinion
A judicial opinion issued under the name of the deciding appellate court. Unlike most judicial opinions, these do not identify the judge who wrote the opinion.
200
Important event that happened here...
What is the Constitutional Convention was held here?
300
This is used in court to argue against laws or government actions that promote religion, or favor one religion over another.
What is the Establishment Clause?
300
This amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and prescribes the procedures by which law enforcement officials can obtain search warrants.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
An eighteen year old girl was kidnapped and raped on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Ten days later, police arrested Ernesto A. Miranda.
What is Miranda v. Arizona 384 US 436 (1966)?
300
Miranda Warning
A set of rights that police must inform suspects of before questioning them. The warning protects suspects' rights during arrest and interrogation.
300
What building is this?
What is the National Constitution Center?
400
This First Amendment right is the only right in the First Amendment that requires more than a lone individual.
What is the Right of Assembly?
400
This amendment governs trial proceedings. It calls for speedy and public jury trials during which defendants can call witnesses and face their accusers. It also provides for the assistance of counsel.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
In 1979, Jerry Helm was convicted of writing a $100 bad check. He had been convicted six previous times of such crimes as obtaining money under false pretenses and driving while intoxicated.
What is Solem v. Helm 463 US 277 (1983)?
400
Appeal
To apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.
400
Who is this?
Purrfessor Ozzie
500
This right - the right to be left alone, as Justice Louis Brandeis once defined it— is not directly mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the right to privacy?
500
Name the protections enshrined in the First Amendment...
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of the Press
Freedom of Assembly and Petition
500
Jack Miller and Frank Layton, two relatively insignificant career criminals, were indicted for transporting from Oaklaholma to Arkansas a “shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length”.
What is United States v. Miller 307 US 174 (1939)?
500
Arraignment
A process where the accused is read an indictment and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
500
What room is this?
What is the Hall of Founders?