Definitions
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are collectively known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment was ratified in 1868 and established citizenship for people born or naturalized in the United States.
The 14th Amendment.
This 1954 case ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This part of the First Amendment protects the right to criticize the government.
What is the Free Speech Clause?
The government cannot take away your life, liberty, or property without following fair legal procedures. This is known as...
What is Due Process?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This clause says that states cannot deny any person equal protection under the law.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
This 1954 case ruled that Mexican Americans were protected by the Equal Protection Clause and could not be excluded from juries because of their ethnicity.
Hernandez vs. Texas
This clause prevents Congress from establishing an official national religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This is the name for an act or idea that goes against what is written in the Constitution.
What is Unconstitutional?
This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This clause prevents states from taking away a person's life, liberty, or property without fair legal procedures.
What is the Due Process Clause?
This 2007 case ruled that public schools could restrict student speech that appeared to promote illegal drug use at a school-sponsored event.
What is Morse vs. Frederick?
This clause protects an individual's right to practice their religion freely.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
These are the rights that police must read to suspects if they are to be asked incriminating questions.
What are Miranda Rights?
This amendment protects people from being forced to testify against themselves and from being tried twice for the same crime.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This clause established that people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and the state where they live.
What is the Citizenship Clause?
This 1989 case ruled that burning the American flag was protected political speech under the First Amendment.
What is Texas vs. Johnson?
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This is the name for the three part test to see if a religious law is constitutional.
What is the Lemon Test?
This amendment protects people accused of crimes by guaranteeing a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, and the right to an attorney.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
If a state passes a law charging a $5,000 licensing fee for out-of-state construction workers to practice their trade, while local in-state workers pay only $100 for the exact same job, it violates this clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
This 1972 case ruled that Amish families could remove their children from school after eighth grade because requiring additional attendance violated their religious freedom.
What is Wisconsin vs. Yoder?