SCOTUS
Who is the Chief Justice?
A judge gives police this in order to search a home.
What is a warrant?
The two main branches of the U.S. legal system.
What are public law and private law?
The source of civil liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
An action taken by the government to bring protections, due process, freedoms to everyone regardless of race, gender, etc.
What is a civil right?
Number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is nine?
Police must have this in order to obtain a search warrant.
What is probable cause?
The most important source of law in the United States and the supreme law of the land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The source of your freedoms of religion, speech, press.
What is the 1st Amendment?
The most important civil right.
What is the right to vote?
Number of justices needed to hear a case in the Supreme Court.
What is four?
The formal charge of wrongdoing.
What is an indictment?
A wrongful act that injures another person or property.
What is a tort?
Everyone is entitled to these protections because of the 14th Amendment.
What are due process protections?
Ensures the right to vote to African-American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Calls a case before the Supreme Court.
What is writ of certoriari?
Hearing where the formal charges are made public.
What is the arraignment?
The rules and regulations of commissions and agencies make up this branch of public law.
What is administrative?
This amendment protects everyone against self-incrimination,
What is the 5th?
SCOTUS provided the "separate but equal" doctrine in this case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Issued by the court when they refuse to hear a case.
What is stare decisis?
The plaintiff and the defendant are known as this.
What are litigants?
Formal legal agreements between two or more parties make up this branch of law.
What are contracts?
What is the 6th?
Started the process of desegregation of the schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS?