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Vocabulary
Court Cases
Amendments
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100

This is a form of government where representatives are elected by the people to make and enforce laws.

Democracy

100
This is the protection of citizens from abuses by the government.
liberty
100
This case led to the development of legal racial segregation known as "Jim Crow".
Plessy v Ferguson
100
This amendment allows the Bill of Rights to be applied to the states.
Fourteenth Amendment Bonus: Which case applied this amendment to the states?
100
Originally, the Bill of Rights limited only the power of what
federal government
200
This is the struggle over power or influence within organizations or informal groups that can grant or withhold benefits or privileges.
politics
200
This prohibits the national government from supporting an official religion.
the establishment clause
200
This case in 1833 held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states.
Barron v. Baltimore Bonus: What court case overturned this decision using the 14th amendment.
200
This clause in the first amendment states people can believe what they want as long as that practice is not harmful to the public welfare.
Free excercise
200

Wearing a black armband or burning the American flag is considered what

symbolic speech 

300

Critics of this feel Americans suffer as a result of inequalities across the states (Think back to the ratification of the Constitution)

federalism

300

This is the view that most of the liberties and rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are protected from state government actions

incorporation theory/ selective incorporation

300

This court case said there was an implied right to privacy.

Roe v. Wade

300
If someone challenges the constitutionality of the death penalty based on the guarantee of no cruel and unusual punishment this is found in what amendment.
Eighth amendment
300
This is the policy in admissions or hiring that gives special consideration to traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past discrimination is known as
affirmative action
400

What are the five protections in the 1st amendment

The freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition

400

This clause gives us civil liberties

due process clause

400

Court case that stated that evidence illegally obtained cannot be used in court

Mapp v. Ohio

400
The Thirteenth amendment does what?
abolish slavery
400

Citizens that are 18 years or older received a constitutional right to vote in part because of

they could join/be drafted into the military at that age/ 26th amendment 

500

This amendment protects your right to due process at the federal level

5th amendment

500
The 4th amendment protects against unreasonable...

search and seizures

500

Court case that incorporated the second amendment to the states

McDonald v. Chicago

500

This amendment gives states the right to make their own laws

10th

500

Which federalist paper would argue for the Supreme Court expanding the power of the Constitution and laws 

Federalist 78