Amendments and Me
Constitutional Clauses
SCOTUS Cases
Incorporation? What's That?
Grab Bag
100

This amendment guarantees your right to own a gun. 

2nd Amendment 

100
The first amendment protects freedoms of speech, but it does not protect this specific kind of speech. 

Obscene speech or obscenities. 

100

This case ended school segregation in the south. 

Brown v. Board of Education

100

The idea that the bill of rights applies to the states. 

Selective Incorporation 

100

The 4th Amendment protects a citizens... 

Right to privacy 

200

This amendment guarantees you a speedy trial. 

6th Amendment 

200

The clause at the center of Wisconsin v. Yoder that allows people religious exemptions for specific laws and regulations. 

Free Exercise Clause 

200

This case involved school sponsored prayers and prohibited public schools from sponsoring religious activity. 

Engel v. Vitale 

200

The first court case that began the process of selective incorporation in 1925. 

Gitlow v. New York

200

In this case, the court ruled that the government could not prevent the press from publishing stories, even if it revealed classified information. 

New York Times Co. v. United States 

300

This Amendment was the center of Miranda v. Arizona and protected rights of the accused. 

5th Amendment 

300

The constitutional clause at the center of Engel v. Vitale that prohibits government from creating a national religion. 

Establishment Clause 

300

This case guaranteed students rights to free speech within schools. 

Tinker v. Des Moines 

300

The 2nd Amendment Case that protected individuals right to own guns and extended selective incorporation to the 2nd Amendment. 

McDonald v. Chicago

300

In Schenk v. United States the court ruled against Schenk and restricted free speech if it creates... 

A clear and present danger
400

This Amendment helped to establish federalism and give power to state governments.

10th Amendment 

400

This constitutional clause is at the center of most Civil Rights cases and finds it home in the 14th Amendment. 

Equal Protections Clause 

400

This case guaranteed religious exemptions from school mandates and regulations. 

Wisconsin v. Yoder 

400

The Amendment that helped create selective incorporation after the Civil War. 

14th Amendment. 

400

This case created test for whether states break the establishment clause, otherwise known as the Lemon Test. 

Lemon v. Kurtzman 

500

This Amendment secures freedoms for individuals that aren't listed in the Constitution.

9th Amendment 

500

While a right to privacy is not explicitly named in the Constitution, what clause has the court used to protect this right from state infringement?

The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment

500

This Supreme Court case restricted individual free speech rights. 

Schenk v. United States 

500

 A case in which the Court held that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a right of legal counsel to anyone accused of a crime. 

Gideon v. Wainwright

500

Students at a public university hold a peaceful protest to demonstrate against an increase in the cost of college tuition. Which constitutional protection best applies to this scenario?

1st Amendment