Amendments
Protect us from unreasonable search and seizures.
4th amendment
What is a system of each branch of gov't having a power to check the power of the other ?
Checks and Balances
Creates or makes laws
Legislative Branch
Supreme Court case dealing with racial segregation in schools. The Supreme Court decided that separating blacks and whites is not constitutional because separate is never equal.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
What is propaganda?
The spread of ideas used to influence people.
What are the five freedoms?
Freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition
People have the right to fair and reasonable laws (all people). The principle that no person can be deprived of life, liberty or property without fair legal procedures and safeguards
Due process
*ENFORCES or carries out laws
Supreme Court case dealing with racial segregation on private trains. The Supreme Court decided that blacks and whites can be separated if the separate facilities are equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What term means that all citizens are accountable to the law?
Rule of Law
Women's suffrage
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Rights that all people have by virtue of being human. John Lockes idea included life, liberty and property. He though some people would give up some rights for protection
Natural Lights
INTERPRETS laws
Judicial Branch
Supreme Court case dealing with the disputed election in 2000. The Supreme Court decided that Gore did not have the right to a recount, and so Bush won the election.
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Which amendment guaranteed due process, equal protection, under the law and granted rights of citizenship to African Americans?
14th
Abolition of slavery
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First 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – details specific freedoms that belong to each American citizen.
The Bill of Rights
PRINCIPLE that led to the creation of the THREE BRANCHES
Separation of Powers
Supreme Court case in which a poor Mexican immigrant was arrested and interrogated but not told that he had a right to remain silent so he confessed to the crimes he was accused of committing. The Supreme Court decided that individuals have a right to have their rights read to them when they're arrested.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Can impeach and remove judges
Legislative Branch
Protection against cruel and unusual punishment
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Guarantees of equal rights & equal treatment under the law, such as trial by jury & voting rights.
Civil rights
A vote that blocks a decision
Veto
Supreme Court case in which a man was asking the court to force the executive branch to give him a job which the former president had appointed him to. The Supreme Court decided that they could not force the government to do this, but they do have judicial review.
Marbury V. Madison (1803)
What Landmark Supreme Court case expanded interpretation of the First Amendment right to free speech in schools to also include freedom of expression?
Tinker v. Des Moines