Amendments
This amendment provides citizens with freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and the right to petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
A court decision that is considered as authority for deciding future cases involving identical or similar facts, or similar legal issues.
What is "precedent?"
This amendment provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws," and came after the amendment which prohibited slavery.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This court interprets the Constitution and have lifelong terms.
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
This is the role of the Supreme Court.
What is to "interpret the constitution?"
Cases like Miranda v. Arizona and Gideon v. Wainwright expanded these kind of rights.
What are the "rights of the accused?"
This case determined if a pamphlet criticizing the US Draft during wartime violated the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech.
What is "Schenck v. United States?"
In the case of NY Times v. United States, this 1st amendment right was expanded.
What is "freedom of the press?"
This case created the "clear and present danger" test which limited freedom of speech.
What is "Schenck v. United States?"
The legislative branch has this responsibility.
What is "make laws?"
Dues Process ensures the accused receive this kind of treatment.
What is a standard set of fair legal procedures?
Plessy v. Ferguson determined this was constiutitonal.
These are the rights you are informed of when arrested and accused of a crime.
What are the Miranda Rights?
Brown v. Board of Education overturned this landmark SCOTUS Case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This is where the White House is.
Where is Washington D.C.?
This clause of the first amendment is the constitutional basis for the separation of church and state.
What is the "establishment clause?"
This landmark SCOTUS case published confidential papers in a newspaper and expanded freedom of the press.
What is "NY Times v. US?"
This amendment gurantees a trial by jury.
What is the fifth and sixth amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education used this amendment to deem "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
What is the 14th amendment?
This is why the House of Representative have more members than the Senate.
If a person runs into a movie theatre and yells "fire," they are not protected by this amendment.
If a teacher wants to force students pray in schools, that is unconstitutional based on this amendment.
What is the first amendment's freedom of religion?
If a cop wants to search your property, they need a warrant or they need this.
What is "probable cause?"
What is "NY Times v. US?"
This is Ms. Pagano's Birthday.
What is Halloween, October 31st?