Legal Vocabulary
A court order allowing police to search a location.
What is a warrant?
This amendment prevents soldiers from being housed in private homes in peacetime.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This crime involves taking someone else’s property without permission.
What is theft?
This case established judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
The decision made by a jury in a trial.
What is a verdict?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This is the intentional killing of another person.
What is murder?
This case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
An agreement between two parties to settle a dispute outside court.
What is a settlement?
This amendment gives the right to remain silent and avoid self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Entering a building illegally with the intent to commit a crime.
What is burglary?
This case originally upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The authority of a court to hear a case.
What is jurisdiction?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Taking something by force or threat of force.
What is robbery?
Ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no standing to sue, a decision widely considered the worst in court history.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The legal responsibility for one’s actions.
What is liability?
How many amendments are there currently?
What is the 27 amendments?
A less serious crime than a felony.
What is a misdemeanor?
Confirmed the federal government has "implied powers" under the Necessary and Proper Clause, establishing federal supremacy over state laws.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?