Civil Liberties
A restriction on the federal government.
What is a civil liberty?
Action taken by the government to bring freedoms/rights/privileges to all people, regardless of race, nationality, religion, geography, etc.
What is a civil right?
Allows the Bill of Rights to apply to the states.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Highest court in the U.S., final say on the Constitution.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
Source of all liberties and protections in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Source of your freedoms (speech, press, religion, etc.)
What is the First Amendment?
Abolished slavery everywhere in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Court case that provides selective incorporation of the 4th Amendment.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
Provided for segregation, separation of blacks and whites in public accomodations.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A fundamental right not formally listed in the BOR but interpreted by SCOTUS via 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th Amendments.
What is the right to privacy?
Source of your protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Provided African-American men with the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Court case the provides selective incorporation of the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
Provides the Supreme Court with the power of judicial review.
You cannot be charged with the same crime twice.
What is protection against double jeopardy?
Source of your protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Provided women's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Court case the provides selective incorporation of the 2nd Amendment?
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
Overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Provides same trial protections for civil trials as the 6th Amendment does for criminal proceedings.
What is the 7th Amendment?
Source of your protections for jury trial of your peers.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
Provides due process and equal protection under the law for all.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Court case the provides selective incorporation of the right to an attorney in the 6th Amendment?
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Amish children are not required to attend school due to free-exercise clause.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
According to the Supreme Court, is the death penalty unconstitutional?
No