Show:
Due Process
Citizenship
Civil Rights
Hodge Podge
More Amendments
100
In order for a search to be legal, officers must have this in order to obtain a warrant.
What is probable cause?
100
This amendment establishes the qualification of citizenship.
What is the 14th amendment?
100
Segregation by law.
What is de jure segregation?
100
Only crime identified in the Constitution.
What is treason?
100
The 13th amendment forbids this.
What is slavery?
200
If an office conducts an illegal search, evidence obtained in that search may not be used in court because of this.
What is the exclusionary rule?
200
The legal process by which a loss of citizenship occurs.
What is expatriation?
200
Precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson
What is seperate but equal?
200
The death penalty.
What is capital punishment?
200
A speedy and public trial is ensured by this amendment.
What is the 6th amendment?
300
A legislative act that seeks to punish a person without a court trial.
What is a bill of attainder?
300
A citizen of a foreign state who lives in this country.
What is an alien?
300
Most civil rights cases are argued under this part of the 14th amendment.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
300
In order for the death penalty to be fair, the court has ruled that this is necessary.
What is a two-stage trial process?
300
Allowed women the vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
When arrested for a crime, the accused has a right to remain silent, a protection against this.
What is self-incrimination?
400
Law of the soil.
What is jus soli?
400
Segregation that exists in fact.
What is de facto segregation?
400
Imprisonment to prevent the accused from committing another crime (even though they may not have been found guilty or gone to trial yet)
What is preventative detention?
400
Allowed African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
A person cannot be tried twice for the same crime, also known as this.
What is double jeopardy?
500
The legal process by which a person can become a citizen.
What is naturalization?
500
Meaning "other" or "different;" as in race, family or kind.
What is heterogenous?
500
Rights read to you upon arrest.
What are Miranda Rights?
500
Allowed 18 year olds to vote.
What is the 26th amendment?