SC Cases
The Amendments
Random
100

What clause of the 1st Amendment did the Court say was being violated in Engel v Vitale, 1962?

Establishment clause

100

Protects you from "unreasonable searches"

What is he 4th?

100

The name of the NSA program in which telephone and Internet metadata was collected.

Prism

200

The drug that two native Americans ingested over the weekend in Oregon v. Smith.

What is peyote?

200

Protects you from having to house or "quarter" soldiers.

What is the 3rd?

200

In what case did the Court establish that the Constitution contained "zones" of privacy?

Griswold v Connecticut, 1965

300

What clause of the 1st Amendment did the Court say was being violated in Wisconsin v Yoder, 1972?

Free Exercise clause

300

Its first clause contains a national definition of citizenship.

What is the 14th?

300

Which 2022 SC case overturned Roe v Wade?

Dobbs v Jackson 

400

What 1917 law was Charles Schenck charged with violating?

The Espionage Act

400

Protects you from having your property taken by government without "just compensation."

What is the 5th?

400

In his Letter, Dr. King dismisses the white moderate's "paternalistic myth of time."  I explained that what he's doing is dismissing this particular way of viewing/understanding/studying history? (it starts with a "d")

Deterministic or Determinism

500

What type of speech did the Court say was being violated by a pre-emptive ban on black arm bands in protest of the Vietnam war?

Symbolic speech

500

Is used by the Supreme Court to "incorporate" civil liberties found in the federal Constitution to the actions of state governments.

What is the 14th?

500

In the 1971 Swann decision, the SC ruled this to be a constitutionally acceptable way to desegregate schools in the spirit of the 1954 Brown decision.

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