Article III
Freedom of Speech
Civil Rights
Bill of Rights
SCOTUS
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In 1804, the House of Representatives did this to a U.S. District judge for "drunkenness, blasphemy on the bench, and refusing to follow legal precedent."

What is impeach? 

(The Senate convicted.)

200

In 2007, the Supreme Court decided the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech clause did not protect a student's right to hold sign with these words. 

What is Bong Hits for Jesus?

200

This Constitutional clause, ratified as part of an Amendment in 1868, is the basis for many civil rights court cases.

What is the equal protection clause?

200

After he wrote a letter to the Supreme Court, the case of this indigent defendent in Florida helped incorporate the Sixth Amendment's "right to counsel" to the states.

Who is Gideon?

200

In this case, Hugo Black said, "They object to the high school, and higher education generally, because the values they teach are in marked variance with Amish values and the Amish way of life; they view secondary school education as an impermissible exposure of their children to a "worldly" influence in conflict with their beliefs."

What is Wisconsin v Yoder

400

The three levels of U.S. federal courts.

What is District (94), Circuit (or Appeals) (13), and Supreme (1)?

400

In this 1919 case the Supreme Court determined that a socialist was not allowed to protest against soldiers enlisting in World War I. 

What is Schenck v. U.S.?

400

These two words were key when Cheryl Brown Henderson, of "Brown v Board (1954)" said, "And where state and local governments have chosen to provide education, it must be provided in BLANK measure. Period,” Henderson said. “That's all it says. It doesn't say anything about how BLANK education can't accomplish that."


What is equal and separate?

400

Justice Stevens focused on these first four words in the Second Amendment in his 2008 dissent in Heller v. D.C.

What is "a well regulated militia"?

400

 In a concurring opinion for this case, which incorporated the second amendment, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, "Justice Breyer is correct that incorporation of the Second Amendment right will to some extent limit the legislative freedom of the States, but this is always true when a Bill of Rights provision is incorporated. Incorporation always restricts experimentation and local variations, but that has not stopped the Court from incorporating virtually every other provision of the Bill of Rights."

What is McDonald v City of Chicago or McDonald? 

600

A Gallup poll revealed that 79% of Americans disagreed with this 1962 Supreme Court case regarding the protection of a civil liberty.  

What is Engel v Vitale (1962)?

600

Despite freedom of speech, this political group was not allowed to gather, according to the decision of the Supreme Court in Dennis v. U.S. (1951).

What are communists?

600

In this 1896 case, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation is Constitutional. 

What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), or Plessy?

600

This Amendment not only protects the right to remain silent, it also prevents the government from taking your private property without "just compensation." 

What is V?

600

Justice Samuel Alito said the following in the majority decision in this 2022 case, "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."


What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), or Dobbs?

800

Justice Amy Coney Barrett quoted this word, which Hamilton wrote in all-caps in Federalist 78, when she explained that President Eisenhower sent troops to enforce integration at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas, because the Judicial Branch does not have this. 

What is FORCE?

800

In Tinker v. DesMoines (1969) the Supreme Court ruled students' freedom of speech liberty allowed them to stage a symbolic protest against the Vietnam War. Years earlier, in 1943, the Supreme Court ruled students could also do what as a form of symbolic protest. 

What is not say the Pledge of Allegiance?

800

The missing word in the following quote from Justice Ginsburg: "The applicable Air Force regulations — if you are pregnant you are out unless you have an BLANK — violated the BLANK protection principle, for no man was ordered out of service because he had been the partner in a conception, no man was ordered out of service because he was about to become a father.


What is abortion, equal?

800

The six civil liberties in the First Amendment.

What is religion (exercise), religion (establishment), speech, press, assembly, and petition?

800

Justice Ginsburg didn't think the reasoning was very strong, but a woman's right to an abortion was incorporated against the states because of a "right to privacy" primarily found in this clause in the 14th Amendment.

What is the due process clause?

1000

Alexander Hamilton may have been referring to the absence of these, specifically, when he argued for "the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.”

What are elections, campaigning, or voting?

1000

The majority of Supreme Court Justices in Brandenburg disagreed with this doctrine, first stated in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), in saying white supremacists didn't pose an immediate physical threat.

What is "clear and present danger"?

1000

The equal protection clause appeared in the Constitution this many years after Thomas Jefferson declared "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.

What is 92?

1000

These two civil liberties prevent police from warrantlessly rummaging through your brand new Land Rover to look for illegal drugs, and then cutting off your hand if you were found guilty.

What is search and seizure and no cruel and unusual punishment?

1000

In the dissent to this controversial Supreme Court case, a Justice stated that "the Constitution still envisions a system of divided sovereignty, still 'establishes a federal republic where local differences are to be cherished as elements of liberty' in the vast run of cases, still allocates a general 'police power … to the States and the States alone.'”

What is McDonald v. Chicago (2010)?