You’ve Got Rights!
These are constitutionally protected freedoms from government interference.
What are civil liberties?
This clause prevents the government from establishing an official religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This clause in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantees fair legal procedures.
What is due process?
This type of due process protects fundamental rights not explicitly listed in the Constitution.
What is substantive due process?
These protect individuals from discrimination based on characteristics like race or gender.
What are civil rights?
This set of amendments protects individual rights and freedoms from government action.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This clause protects individuals’ rights to practice their religion freely.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
This rule prevents illegally obtained evidence from being used in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?
This Supreme Court case established a constitutional right to privacy in marriage.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
This amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This amendment protects freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This type of speech uses actions instead of words to express ideas.
What is symbolic speech?
This Supreme Court case required police to inform suspects of their rights before questioning.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This Supreme Court case extended the right to privacy to abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This Supreme Court case overturned “separate but equal” in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
These restrictions regulate when, where, and how speech can occur.
What are time, place, and manner restrictions?
This Supreme Court case guaranteed the right to an attorney for criminal defendants.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This 2022 Supreme Court case overturned Roe v. Wade.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
This law banned discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment and is central to death penalty debates.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This Supreme Court case established the “clear and present danger” test for limiting speech.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This doctrine extends Bill of Rights protections to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is selective incorporation?
This amendment is often cited to support the idea of unenumerated rights.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
These policies aim to address past discrimination in education and employment.
What is affirmative action?