Bill of Rights
This grants freedom to citizens in the areas of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petitioning the government?
What is the First Amendment?
Students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War and the school suspended them even though there was no disturbance.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This was created at the end of the Civil War and it banned unjust slavery/involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th amendment?
These are fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens protected from infringement by the government.
What are civil liberties?
This protects against the government requiring citizens to join or support a religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This protects against unreasonable search and seizure and establishes the right to have warrants issued before an arrest or search.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
A school-led prayer in New York public schools was ruled unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
This prohibits the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the factors of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This allowed all men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These are protections from discrimination as a member of a particular group.
What are Civil Rights?
This is an untrue spoken expression that injures a person’s reputation.
What is slander?
This protects against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The Supreme Court ruled that states must provide a lawyer to defendants who cannot afford one in court.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This made everyone born in the US a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Evidence obtained without a warrant is inadmissible in court.
What is Exclusionary rule?
When an act of legislature declares someone guilty and provides a punishment without a trial.
What is the Bill of Attainder?
This is the right to a trial by jury in certain civil suits.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
These papers contained information that posed a threat to the Nixon Administration.
What are the Pentagon Papers (New York Times v. United States)?
This amendment prohibits the government from denying citizens the right to vote based on gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
What is the Letter from a Birmingham Jail
This type of segregation occurs because of factors like residential housing patterns.
What is De Facto Segregation?
This protects rights not listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
What act made it a crime to interfere with military recruiting. (Schenck v. U.S.)
What is the Espionage Act?
This was the basis of the constitutional process applies most Bill of Rights protections to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Legislation outlawing racial segregation in schools and public places that is based on the Commerce Clause.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This protects an individual acquitted of a crime from being charged with the same crime again in the same jurisdiction.
What is double jeopardy?