Vocab 1
What rule states that evidence obtained without a warrant is inadmissible in court?
Exclusionary Rule
An untrue spoken expression that injures a person's reputation
Slander
What policy is designed to address the consequence of previous discrimination by providing special consideration to individuals based upon their characteristics such as race or gender
Affirmative Action
What amendment banned slavery within the united states?
The 13th Amendment
What court case decided that former slaves and descendants of slaves were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What terms describes the first amendments protection against the government requiring citizens to join or support a religion
Establishment Clause
A group of citizens who, based on the evidence presented, decide whether or not a person should be tried in court or indicted on the criminal charges
Grand Jury
An act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial
Bill of Attainder
What amendment granted African American men the right to vote?
What court case violated the Espionage Act of 1917?
Schenck v. United States
the legislation that outlawed literacy tests and authorized the justice department to send federal officers to register voters in uncooperative cities, counties, and states
Voting rights act of 1965
What clause of the fourteenth amendment protects the civil rights of Americans from discrimination against race, national origin, religion, gender, and other characteristics
Equal Protection Clause
What term describes the intentional refusal to obey a law to call attention to its injustice
What amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?
The 14th Amendment
What course case determined that individuals cannot be prohibited from owning firearms?
Mcdonald v. Chicago
The legislation that outlawed racial segregation in schools and public places and authorized the attorney general to sue individuals and school districts that filled to desegregation
Civil rights act of 1964
The clause in the fourteenth amendment that restricts state government from denying citizens their life, liberty, or property without legal safeguards
Due Process Clause
What term describes the separation of individuals based on characteristics that arise not by law but because of other factors like residential housing patterns
De facto segregation
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
The 19th amendment
What court case invalidated the use of the death penalty in 1972?
Furman v. Georgia
The suppression of material prior to publication on the grounds that it might endanger national security.
Prior Restraint
The separation of individuals based n their characteristics such as race, by law.
De Jure Segregation
A piecemeal process through which the supreme court has affirmed that almost all of the protections in the Bill of Rights also apply to state government.
Selective Incorporation
What court case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine?
Plessy v. Furguson