Bill of Rights/Amendments
The amendment that protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
Supreme Court case that protects a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The clause that prohibits the government from establishing religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
Constitutional freedoms guaranteed to all citizens.
Major that both Geoffrey and Mason are going into for college.
What is civil engineering?
The amendment that protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
What is Brown v. Board?
This clause requires states to refrain from discriminating between any groups and from denying any person their rights.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
A tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults and often linked to the right to vote. (not used anymore)
What is poll tax?
The case that won 3A's Supreme Court Madness.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
People have more rights than what is just explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights.
The Supreme Court case that dealt with providing a lawyer for those unable to afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Prohibits the deprivation of life, liberty, or property.
What is the Due Process clause?
These are the legal rights of an arrested person to have an attorney and to refuse to answer questions.
What are the Miranda Rights?
Ms. Robinson's favorite table group.
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Supreme Court case that involved the Establishment Clause.
What is Engle v. Vitale?
This clause prohibits anyone from being prosecuted twice for substantially the same crime
What is double jeopardy?
The requirement, imposed by law or administrative regulation, that an organization (business firm, government agency, labor union, school, or college) take positive steps to increase the number or proportion of women, African Americans, or other minorities in its membership.
What is affirmative action?
Best movie ever made.
What is Zootopia?
Amendment that states that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Supreme Court cases involving the right to free speech protected by the First Amendment (two responses necessary).
What are Tinker v. Des Moines and Schenk v. US?
This clause protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a "public morals" or a "compelling" governmental interest.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
This test is used to determine whether a government's treatment of a religious institution constitutes "establishment of a religion"
What is the lemon test?
Longest suspension bridge in the Bay Area.
What is the Bay Bridge?