(3.1-3.3) The Bill of Rights, First Amendment: Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech
The first 10 amendments in the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The clause that states a crime in plain sight doesn't need a warrant
What is the 4th amendment?
A process that ensures that fair and legitimate legal processes take place before life, liberty or property can be taken
What is Due Process?
Leader of the non-violent organization SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Overrode the precedent made in Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
A clear divide between church and state as said by Jefferson
What is Wall of Separation?
The amendment that protects against cruel and unusual punishment and excessive fines
What is the 8th amendment?
Defined by the phrase "Right to Remain Silent"
What is the Miranda Rights?
Institutional efforts to diversify by race, gender and otherwise
What is Affirmative Action?
The case regarding ability to purchase handguns in Chicago and state law on gun ownership
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
Non-verbal actions that express a viewpoint, sometimes in a controversial issue
What is symbolic speech?
The justification for the Gun Control Act (1968)
What is an increase in assassinations and urban crime?
Stated evidence taken in violation of the 4th amendment can be excluded from trial
What is the exclusionary rule?
The organization that helped outlaw white primaries
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
Made it so states had to fund and train public defenders
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Types of speech that are unprotected
What is obscene and defamatory speech?
False statement that damage a person's reputation
What is Libel?
A set of cases where private slaughterhouse owners sued New Orleans for consolidating slaughterhouses into one government operation
What is the Slaughterhouse Cases?
The man who spearheaded the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Concerned the Espionage Act
What is Schenck v. The United States?
Two clauses that uphold religious freedom in the United States
What is the establishment and free exercise clause?
A (non-required) case that put a national hold on the death penalty while guidelines were reconstructed and limits were created
What is Furman v. Georgia (1972)?
The (non-required) case that stablished that privacy though not an expressed right is an inherent right protected in the 1st, 4th and 9th amendments
What is Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)?
The (non-required) case that allowed mathematical ratios to be used to integrate schools by reflecting the racial makeup of local populations
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971)?
Increased home schooling through its ruling and set a precedent for when the state comes in conflict with the free exercise of religion
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?