1st Amendment Court Cases
This court case in 1925 that established the first amendment protection applies also to state governments.
What is Gitlow v NY
The first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution
Plessy V. Ferguson case established this, the idea behind Jim Crow Segregation laws
What is the "separate but equal clause"?
This court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional
What is Brown v Board of Education?
The case ourt case in 1975 that prohibited state law from requiring children to attend school on religious dates.
What is Wisconsin v Yoder?
These are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge by law whereas these are government-protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment
What are the differences between rights and liberties?
Mapp v. Ohio established this idea, which protects you from evidence gathered without a warrant.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was constitutional if they were separate but equal
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This court case involves a violation of the espionage act during World War I ... and the speech freedoms associated with the charge
Schenck v US?
a three part test by the supreme court that examines weather a government action violates the establishment clause
What is the Lemon Test
The Supreme Court ruled on this controversial amendment in its DC v Heller decision
What is the 2nd Amendment
The Supreme Court incorporated freedom of speech from the Bill of Rights into state law with this case
What is Gitlow v New York
This case protected the rights of students to publicly express themselves in protest of the state while leading to an overall public debate on how the 1st amendment could be applied to minors in public institutions
What is Tinker v Des Moines
This World War II supreme court decision went against equal protection
This was the first case where the Court decided the 14th amendment extended the influence of the first amendment to apply to the State Governments.
What is Gitlow v NY?
The United States Supreme court case upheld that the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II was constitutional.
What is Korematsu v US?
This court case decided that under certain circumstances the first amendment wont protect offensive speech...especially if you want to fight.
What is Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
This clause directs the national government to not choose or sanction an official religion
The McDonald v Chicago court case used this.... to expand the use of the due process clause which makes the Bill of Rights applicable at the state level.
What is the incorporation doctrine?
In the 1978 Court Case of Regents of University of California v. Bakke, the ruling of the court upheld this policy as constitution, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.
What is affirmative action?