Case Phrases
"Clear and present danger"
What is Schenck v. United States?
The religious clause of Wisconsin v Yoder.
What is free exercise?
New York state school led voluntary prayer.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
These are the 5 freedoms in the first amendment (including the two sub-clauses).
What are speech, press, assembly, petition and religion (free exercise and establishment)?
This is the key amendment and clause when discussing any civil rights issues.
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
Compelling government interest for students to attend school.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
The clause used in Gideon v Wainwright.
What is the right to an attorney in the 6th amendment?
In Chicago, had to go through difficult registration process to legally own a handgun.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
What are the right to not incriminate yourself (5th) and the right to an attorney (6th)?
These are the three "Civil War Amendments."
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The Constitutional Clause in Shaw v. Reno.
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
Florida man had to represent himself in his writ of certiorari request to the Supreme Court.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The Due Process Clause can be found in these two amendments and is listed twice because of this.
What are the 5th and 14th Amendments and the 14th applies it to the states?
This is the difference between de facto and de jure segregation.
What is De facto is segregation based on societal patterns and De Jure is segregation intentionally based on laws?
Districts must be cohesive and contiguous.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
This is the Constitutional Clause in New York Times v. United States.
What is Freedom of the Press of the 1st Amendment?
Amish families wanted to take students out of school at age 14.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
This amendment has not been selectively incorporated but it is part of the penumbra of privacy because of the concept that a person's home is their castle.
What is the third amendment?
These are the three amendments that expanded voting rights.
What are the 15th, 19th and 26th amendments?
Separate facilities are inherently unequal.
What is Brown v. Board?
These are the Constitutional Clauses used in Roe v. Wade.
What are the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th amendments? (And the 14th)
The government tried to use prior restraint.
What is New York Times v United States?
These are the first four words of the second amendment.
What are "a well regulated militia?"
This is the difference between Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972
Title VII banned discrimination in employment, Title IX banned discrimination in education.