The institution of government that plays the largest role in interpreting the Bill of Rights.
What is the Supreme Court or Judicial Branch
100
Thomas Jefferson and his fellow authors would have called these rights naturals rights or inalienable rights
What are civil liberties
100
What rights are protected under the first amendments?
What are freedom of religion, speech, the press and assembly?
100
What right is protected by the second amendment?
What is the right to bear arms?
100
The 5th amendment protects individuals against __________ or saying something that might imply their own guilt.
What is self-incrimination?
200
The overall topic protected by the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments
What are the rights about criminal justices?
200
In 1868 the ratification of this amendment occurred.
What is the 14th amendment?
200
What is the term for an attempt by the government to prevent the publication or broadcast of material considered harmful.
What is prior restraint?
200
Protection for your home and person are protected by which two amendments?
What are the third and fourth amendments?
200
This term means that if a person is tried for a crime and found not guilty prosecutors cannot try the person again for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
300
The role of the supreme court today
What is to review the legal decision made by the lower courts?
300
The process of applying the Bill of Rights to the states through Supreme Court decisions.
What is incorporation?
300
Supreme Court Case Texas v. Johnson dealt with what?
What is flag burning?
300
What must a warrant be based on?
What is probable cause?
300
This case showed that people need the right to a fair trial.
What is Gideon vs. Wainwright?
400
A lower court must alter the original decision, dismiss the case, or order a new trial when...
The Supreme Courts overturn their decision about a case?
400
The ______ amendment, the ______ amendment, and the _____ amendment are fully incorporated.
What are the 1st, 4th and 6th amendment?
400
What is the difference between libel and slander?
Libel is written and slander is orally.
400
The second, third, and forth amendments were a response to what?
What is the suppression of rights under British colonial rule?
400
Most of the legal challenges to this amendment have involved the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
500
Explain the decision of the Supreme Court Decision in Hague vs. CIO
The Supreme Court decided in favor of the labor union because Hague had applied the permit law unfairly
500
When the Supreme Court makes a decision on an issue the decision becomes a ____________
What is a precedent?
500
What are the 3 things a government action must be to be counted as Constitutional?
What is
1) have a secular, or nonreligious, purpose
2) neither help nor hurt religion
3) not result in an "excessive entanglement" of the government and religion
500
What is a warrant and what does it protect against?
What is a written approval from a judge; forbids unreasonable searches and seizure of individuals or their property without it?
500
The 9th and 10th amendment balance out the balance between the __________ and the ____________.