The purpose of this key document is to limit governmental power over the individual.
What is the Constitution?
100
Flag burning is one example of this kind of speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
What is symbolic speech?
100
Some constitutional scholars believe that this amendment protects only the collective right of the states to form militias.
What is Second Amendment?
100
The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which wasn't reversed until 1954, effectively gave constitutional to this Southern practice.
What is segregation?
200
Name one of the rights protected in the First Amendment.
What is freedom of speech, religion, press or assembly?
200
Smoking peyote, a practice in some Native American religions is an example of this, which is not necessarily protected under the First Amendment.
What is a religious practice?
200
The right to remain silent also refered to the right against self-incrimination is found in this amendment.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
With this declaration, Lincoln declared the freedom of all slaves that resided in rebel states, a political and military action intended to help preserve the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This ethnic group is now the largest minority group in the United States.
What are Latinos or Hispanics?
300
In 2002 case involving schools in Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled that using vouchers to send kids to these was Constitutional.
What are religiously affiliated schools?
300
In a key court case involving First Amendment rights, Santeria, a mix of voodoo and Catholicism, won the right to do this.
What is sacrifice animals in religious services?
300
What amendments are considered the Bill of Rights?
What are the first ten amendments?
300
Name the chief litigator for the NAACP in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas who later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This Hispanic subgroup is better educated, has higher incomes and tends to vote Republican more than any other.
What or who are Cubans?
400
The Supreme Court has interpreted religious freedom to include protection of all religious beliefs, but NOT necessarily protection of these.
What are religious practices?
400
Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut are Supreme Court Cases which provide examples of this right.
What is the right to privacy?
400
The right to a speedy and public trial is guaranteed in this amendment.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
400
This Act, passed in 1964, made discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, or national origin illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
400
The acronym ADA stands for this.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act?
500
The Due Process Clause is part of this Amendment?
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
Yelling "Fire!" in a movie theater is NOT protected speech because it is an example that violates this doctrine which is used to determine the Constitutionality of types of speech.
What is he clear and present danger doctrine?
500
The protection against cruel and unusual punishment is found in this amendment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
500
This type of segregation occurs not by official actions but by residential patterns.
What is de facto segregation?
500
The last name of the defendant who sued the University of California Regents for admission to the medical school.