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Equality and Civil Rights
Bill of Rights
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Court Cases
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The first clause in the First Amendment, which forbids government establishment of religion.
What is the establishment clause?
100
This form of equality offers all individuals the same chance to get ahead.
What is equality of opportunity?
100
This is the name of the case that made it mandatory for the Pledge of Allegiance to be said everyday?
What is Minersville School District vs. Gobitis
100
These are your Miranda Rights.
What is the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in the court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer of your own choice before questioning. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, a lawyer will be provided without charge
100
The Supreme Court affirmed the right of lower courts to order the busing of children to ensure school desegregation.
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg?
200
Censorship before publication.
What is prior restraint?
200
This president established the President's Committee on Civil Rights?
Who is Truman?
200
This is the definition of the 6th Article, Second Clause
What is having the federal law trump the state's law?
200
This radio talk show host was banned from talking on air due to their profound language.
Who is Howard Stern?
200
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their detentions in the federal courts.
What is Boumediene v. Bush?
300
The notion that women must be protected from life's cruelties.
What is protectionism?
300
This piece of legislation failed because of an attachment calling for prayer in public schools.
What is the equal rights amendment?
300
This is the Second Clause in the First Amendment
What is the Free - Exercise Clause?
300
These were dubbed the Civil War Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
300
Court ruled that government educational grants to students implicate the institution as a recipient of government funds; so it must comply with government nondiscrimination provisions.
What is Grove City College v. Bell
400
A purchasing or contracting provision that reserves a certain percentage of funds for minority-owned contractors.
What is a set-aside?
400
Intended to "jump-start" minorities shackled by decades of invidious discrimination. The culprit of reverse discrimination.
What is affirmative action?
400
This case deputed between advocacy of ideas vs. speech as incitement.
What is Schenck vs. US?
400
This country had 250,000 illegal immigrants in the US between 2005 and 2007
What is Korea?
400
Threatening speech is protected by the Fist Amendment unless the government can prove that such advocacy is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
What is Brandenburg v. Ohio?
500
The judicial rule that states that evidence obtained in an illegal search and seizure cannot be used in trail.
What is the exclusionary rule?
500
This law extends the protections embodied in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to people with physical or mental disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
500
These are the Three-Prongs of the Lemon Test.
What are: a secular purpose, not to advance of inhibit religion, and must not entangle the government excessively with religion.
500
This was the United States first Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Who is John Jay
500
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?