The rights of the people to be treated without unreasonable or unconstitutional differences.
What is civil rights?
100
Term for improperly gathered evidence that may not be introduced in a criminal trial.
What is exclusionary rule?
100
The "right to die" is an implicit right found in which part of the Constitution...
What is the Ninth Amendment
100
Freedom of speech
What is Gitlow v. New York
100
This Supreme case established the "cleat and present danger" doctrine...
What is Schenck v. United States
200
Segregation maintained by law is labeled
What is de jure
200
Right to The Bill of Rights has come to apply to the states through the interpretation of...
What is the Fourteenth Amendment
200
The terms prior review and prior restraint refer to what constitution principle...
What is Freedom of the press
200
Freedom of the press...
What is Near v. Minnesota
200
The principle established in the Supreme Court case of Texas v Johnson was based on...
What is symbolic speech
300
The most far reaching cvil rights act was passed in...
When is 1964
300
The two clauses of the First Amendment that deal with religion are concerned with...
What is free exercise and establishment
300
Lemon v Kurtzman established a three-pronged test to determine if there is excessive government intrusion in establishing religion. the test included that the purpose of the legislation must be secular, not religion; its primary effect must neither advance nor inhibit religion; and it must avoid an "excessive entanglement of government with religion"
What is the Lemon test
300
Doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate but equal facilities.
What is separate but equal doctrine
300
Written defamation of character is known as...
What is libel
400
Programs designed to increase minority participation in some institutions (businesses, schools, labor unions, or government agencies) by taking positive steps to appoint more minority-group members...
What is affirmative action
400
Denies the government the right, without due process, to deprive people of life, liberty, and property...
What is due process of law
400
In Mapp v Ohio, the Supreme Court establish...
What is the exclusionary rule of evidence
400
Freedom of religion...
What is Cantwell v. Connecticut
400
Slander differs from libel in that it reers to...
What is oral statements
500
Prohibited discrimination based on disability...
What is Americans With Disabilities Act
500
No state shall make any laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunity of citizens of the U.S. nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. ; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment
500
this doctrine made the Bill of Rights applicable to the states...
What is the incorporation principle
500
In 1992, the Supreme Court overturned a Minnesota statute involving the display of odious symbols. The Court ruled that the display is...
What is protected by the Constitution
500
A series of questions asked of a potential candidate for high office, the answer to which would determine whether the nominating official would proceed with the appointment or nomination