Documents
Identifies the "unalienable rights" of all humans
Declaration of Independence
The five rights in the First Amendment?
Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech.
Set up the Precedent "Separate but Equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Believed government's purpose is to protect people from each other.
Thomas Hobbes
Branch of government established in Article III?
Judicial
Freed slaves in southern states before the end of the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Due process, no Double Jeopardy, and eminent Domain.
5th Amendment
Overturned Separate but Equal and ended segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education
Believed that three individual branches of government helps to limit the powers each one.
Baron de Montesquieu
One right only available to US citizens
1. Serve on a jury
2. Run for President
Group that wanted the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution and wanted a smaller federal government.
Anti-Federalist.
Amendment that provides for a speedy trial, a jury trial, and access to legal counsel for the accused
6th Amendment
Said that students do not lose rights when they enter the classroom. Set up symbolic speech.
Tinker v. Des Moines
The idea that people must willingly give up their political power to the group in order to protect their individual rights.
Social Contract
Also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP)
The Republican Party
Branch of government established in Article II?
Executive
"Cruel" or "unusual" punishments are not legal
8th Amendment
Case that identified flag burning as "symbolic speech"
Texas v. Johnson
Believed that government's job was to protect life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Who approves people appointed to jobs by the President?
the Senate
First document to establish self- government in the "New World"
Mayflower Compact
Gave Women Suffrage.
19th Amendment
Court Case that prevented schools from requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
WV. v. Barnette
Argued that women should be included in political and economic matters in the 18th century.
Mary Wollstonecraft
What does Article V of the Constitution do?
Identifies ways to amend the Constitution