Court Cases
Court case that ruled amish students could drop out of school after the 8th grade.
What is Wisconsin vs. Yoder?
Amendment dealing with equal protection.
What is the 14th amendment?
Refer to the protection of the people from the government.
What are civil liberties?
Landmark case that desegregated schools in 1954.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Amendment of free speech, press, religion, and expression.
What is the 1st amendment?
Refer to protection by the government against discrimination.
What are civil rights?
Case ruled in 1962 that school-sponsored prayer during school hours was unconstitutional under the establishment clause.
What is Engel vs. Vitale?
Amendment dealing with the right to a fair trial, among other things.
What is the 5th amendment?
Refers to the right of every person to a chance to be proven not guilty.
What is Due Process?
Court ruling that current legislation about the illegality of interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
Amendment dealing with a set of rights often referred to as one's Miranda rights.
What is the 6th Amendment?
Term used to describe liberties in the first amendment dealing with the news.
What is Freedom of the Press?
Case about a man challenging restrictive gun laws in Chicago in 2010.
What is McDonald vs. Chicago?
What is the amendment pertaining to the right to bear arms?
What is the 2nd amendment?
Process where amendments in the bill of rights have been applied to the states.
What is Selective Incorporation?