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Vocabulary
Court Cases
Amendments
Extras
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

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 

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
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. Hint: Federal and State 

federalism

400

Supreme Court-established legal principle prohibiting evidence obtained through illegal searches or seizures (violating the 4th Amendment) from being used against a defendant in criminal trials.

Exclusionary Rule

400

This Supreme Court Case helped to establish citizens 6th amendment right to legal counsel during trial 

Gideon v. Wainwright

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

The role Congress plays in ensuring that the executive branch agencies are carrying out their legislated responsibilities is known as

Legislative oversight

500

Getting into good trouble is a form of 

Civil Disobedience 

500

a landmark Supreme Court case establishing that First Amendment freedom of speech protections do not apply to speech creating a "clear and present danger" of significant evils, such as obstructing the war effort.

Schenck v. US

500

Guaranteed the right to vote for women 

19th amendment

500

Both the events of the Compton Cafeteria Riot affecting LGBT individuals and MLKs Letter from Birmingham Jail about the injustices faced by the black community highlight discrepancies' with which amendment/clause? 

14th amendment 

Due Process/Equal Protection Clause