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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.
Democratic Republic
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 Bonus: What court case established the burning of the flag as symbolic speech?
300
This is when authority of a government is broadly accepted, it is said to have...
legitimacy
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
300
This court case said their was an implied right to privacy.
Griswald v Connecticut
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
Critics of this feel Americans suffer as a result of inequalities across the states.
federalism
400
This form of segregation is due to previous conditions, not deliberate government intention.
de facto
400
The Supreme Court ruled that publicity does not always lead to a what.
unfair trial
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.
500

Hot Pastrami, NO CHEESE, on Marble Rye Bread 

Cooperative Federalism 

500

The publication of false or malicious statements that damage someone's reputation (written)

 Libel 

500

What clause was demonstrated in the case Wisconsin v Yoder? 


Free Exercise Clause 

500

Which amendment is established in the case Miranda v Arizona (1966)

5th Amendment - requires individuals arrested for a crime to be advised of their right to remain silent and to have counsel present.

500

Why did DC v Heller (2008) NOT set a precedent for other states in regards to the 2nd amendment and an indiviudals right to bear arms?

DC is not a state!