Amendments
Was cited in the Miranda Case
What is the 5th amendment?
What is Civil Rights?
Constitutional freedoms guaranteed to all citizens
What is civil liberties?
The recent major event that has resulted in challenges to the 4th amendment.
What is 9/11 or the War on Terrorism?
The case ruled that flag burning was a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment
What was Texas vs. Johnson?
Gives the rights to the people, even if they are not specifically enumerated by the Constitution?
What is the 9th amendment?
the amendment that says "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law."
What is the 14th amendment?
The two clauses of the the Freedom of Religion clause
What are the establishment and exercise clauses?
Wall of separation refers to
What is separation of church and state?
This case established judicial review for the supreme court.
What was Marbury v Madison?
Expanded suffrage to African American men
What is the 15th Amendment?
The legal standard of determining whether a search or seizure is constitutional
What is a search warrant?
A law that makes illegal an act that was legal at the time of the act
What are ex post facto laws?
Protections from the government seizing your property
What is eminent domain?
This case concluded that people encouraging young men to dodge the draft could be imprisoned for doing so?
What is Schenck v. United States?
Cited in the Gideon v Wainwright case.
What is the 6th amendment?
action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women
What is affirmative action?
Evidence found without a search warrant usually violates the ___________________ rule
What is the exclusionary rule?
Segregation based on customs not the law.
What is de facto segregation?
The case decided that separation of schools by race is inherently unequal?
What is Brown v. Board of Ed?
Cited primarily in Selective Incorporation cases.
What is the 14th amendment?
Laws that were designed to enforce segregation of blacks and whites
What are Jim Crow laws?
A test created to decide if a government policy violates the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is the Lemon Test?
A document ML King Jr. explaining the protest against racial segregation and discrimination
What was the Letter from a Birmingham jail?
This case ruled protected the rights of students to protest the Vietnam War by wearing arm bands - symbolic speech?
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?