Political Parties
How many political parties does the United States have currently?
2 party system
What does the Second Amendment protect?
What two religious guarantees does the First Amendment promise?
Establishment Clause
Free Exercise
What speech right does Tinker v Des Moines argue?
What is Libel?
False and malicious use of printed words
What is a Political Party?
A group of citizens who want to influence government by getting the candidates of their choice elected and the candidate will then impact public policy?
Name the five basic rights protected in the First Amendment.
Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.
Thomas Jefferson hoped to set up what?
"A wall between church and state"
How does Wisconsin v. Yoder impact the Amish?
It allows their kids to discontinue going to school after 8th grade because it goes against their religious practices and ways of life.
What is slander?
false and malicious use of spoken words
Why do we have third parties?
A smaller political group that challenges the two major parties because they are not addressing a certain topic. These third parties can change the outcome of the election.
What did Engel V. Vitale argue?
The rights of the students and if none religious schools can provide optional prayers during the school day.
What did Korematsu V. United States decide?
Wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.
Examples of symbolic speech?
Burning the flag, wearing armbands during school
What are Democrats seen as? What are Republicans seen as?
Democrats are seen as liberal. Republicans are seen as conservative.
What powers does the Tenth Amendment reserve?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Zelman V. Simmons - Harris allowed what?
Parents can use vouchers to send and pay for their kids to go to a religious school.
What was the importance of Barron V. Baltimore?
What does Schenck V. United States argue?
Just because we have the freedom of speech, doesn't mean we have the right to some extensive parts of speech. We need to use our freedom of speech carefully.
Can a democracy run under a one party system? Who does run under a one party system?
What four basic rights are protected by the Sixth Amendment?
It guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.
What are the three prongs in the Lemon Test?
1. A law must have a secular, not religious, purpose
2. It must neither advance nor inhibit religion
3. it must not foster an "excessive entanglement" of government and religion
Why was the decision of Gitlow V. New York significant?
The Supreme Court decided that freedoms of press and speech are "fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from the impairment by the states" as well as by the federal government.
Can going into school take away your first amendment right? What case study argues this?
Tinker v. Des Moines. Schools don't take away your first amendment rights. Students have the right to symbolic speech even after they are inside the school house.