In Tinker v. Des Moines, this is the reason that the armbands were OK, and considered protected by the First Amendment.
What is Freedom of Speech, and not disruptive to the classroom?
100
In the VMI case, the school was discriminating based on what category?
What is Gender?
100
What the 2nd amendment is all about (in your own words).
What is the Right to bear arms?
200
The Chief Justice
Who is John Roberts?
200
The document given to the Supreme Court which asks them to review your case and grant you a hearing.
What is the Petition for Certiorari?
200
In D.C. v. R.R., the First Amendment did not protect the speech from the bad student. This is the reason why.
What is True Threat Speech?
200
Many Native Americans receive financial assistance based on these rights...
What are Collective Rights?
200
The type of PROTECTION that the 14th amendment provides...
What is Equal Protection?
300
The two most liberal Justices
Who are Ginsburg and Sotomayor?
300
The approximate number of petitions for certioriari that the Supreme Court is sent each year -- asking them to hear the case.
What is 9000?
300
Free Speech Zones are also known as this term.
What is First Amendment Zones?
300
When colleges or employers give Minority candidates assistance in order to be admitted or hired.
What is Affirmative Action?
300
Roe v. Wade set up a trimester framework -- in this trimester, the Mother's right to have an abortion is the most protected.
What is the First Trimester?
400
The 2 most conservative Justices.
Who are Scalia and Thomas?
400
The minimum number of Justices on the Supreme Court that must vote for a case in order for it to be given a hearing date.
What is Four?
400
Free Speech Zones physically protect one group and maintain the order of a second group. These 2 groups are...
Who are Politicians (etc), and Protesters?
400
This type of affirmative action at a University is definitely Unconstitutitonal -- Where the University has a certain number of slots for a given Race, and they attempt to fill this...
What is a Quota?
400
Roe v. Wade set up a trimester framework. In this trimester, the Government is allowed the most restrictions on abortion.
What is the 3rd Trimester?
500
Those Justices on the liberal side of the political spectrum believe the Constitution is this (or should be interepreted this way) -- two words..
What is a Living Document?
500
The Article of the Constitution which created the Judicial System.
What is Article III?
500
The two clauses of the freedom of religion are...(give an example)
What are the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause? FEC -- You can wear your star of David. EST -- You can't be requried to say a prayer in Public School
500
In Philadelphia, Tom Hanks was fired because he had AIDS. What type of discrimination was this? Name the Act.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
500
The two most common interpretations of the 2nd Amendment are...
What is 1) All citizens may bare arms, 2) Only the militarty should bare arms.