Key terms / Vocab
A decision made by court that serves as an example or guide for future decisions.
What is precedent?
The Second Amendment
Students DO have a reasonable expectation of privacy in schools and school officials should follow the fourth amendment in regards to students. However, a school official may conduct a search of a student's person is there is reasonable suspicion.
What is the precedent set in New Jersey vs. TLO?
The Supreme Court's job.
What is judicial review?
Verbally spreading false information about someone with the intent to cause harm, especially to their reputation.
What is slander?
No quartering of soldiers.
What is the Third Amendment?
In Engel v. Vitale, the court ruled that a reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violates the __________.
What is the establishment clause of the First Amendment?
The majority opinion and precedent set in Tinker v. Des Moines.
The black armbands are true speech. Students don't lose their access to free speech when they enter the school.
The standard of proof in criminal cases. If you believe someone is guilty beyond a ______, you are 95% sure they're guilty of the crime.
What is reasonable doubt?
The five provisions of the First Amendment.
What are Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Protest, Petition, Speech?
Facts: Two men were charged with violating the National Firearms Act when they transported sawed-off double-barrel shotguns through interstate commerce.
Question: Does the 2A protect a person's right to possess a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun?
Majority opinion: Because a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun does not have a reasonable relationship to a well-regulated militia, such a weapon is not protected by the 2A.
Precedent set: The 2A protects firearms that have a reasonable relationship to preserving a well-regulated militia only.
What is United States v. Miller?
Symbolic speech.
The principal that judicial review should be used sparingly, especially in dealing with controversial issues, so as to not abuse their power and leave many decisions up to the states and local bodies.
What is judicial restraint?
The Fourth Amendment
What is protection from unreasonable searches and seizures?
This is the precedent set in Mapp v. Ohio
What is the exclusionary rule?
The Eighth Amendment
What is no excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishment?
An attempt by government to prevent the publication or broadcast of material that is considered harmful in some way.
What is prior restraint?
The four protections granted to citizens in the Sixth Amendment.
What are the rights to (1) a speedy and public trial, (2) a jury of your peers, (3) witnesses for defense, and (4) a lawyer?
The majority opinion and precedent set in DC v. Heller.
What is the majority opinion that banning handgun registration and keeping nonfunctional guns in the home violates the 2A? and What is the precedent that people have the right to own functional guns?
Things the 1A does not protect.
What are libel, slander, false advertising, obscene words, obscene materials?