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Civil Liberties vs Civil Rights

Civil Liberties = Protect individuals from government tyranny

Civil Rights = Protect individuals from discrimination 

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2nd Amendment

Law-abiding citizens have right to a gun for self-defense.

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Brown vs. Board

Seperate but equal declared unconstitutional 

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Free Exercise Clause

The Free Exercise Clause protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a "public morals" or a "compelling" governmental interest.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

This ended racial discrimination in places of public accommodation

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No Prior restraint?

Government censoring your speech before you say something or censoring news before it is published sits near the top of things that violate the First Amendment

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First Amendment freedoms

petition, assembly, press, speech, and religion

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Describe Wisconsin Vs. Yoder, what clause?


The Court held that individual's interests in the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment outweighed the State's interests in compelling school attendance beyond the eighth grade.

Free exercise clause 



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the policy to ensure equal funding and end gender discrimination in education was

Title IX

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De Facto vs De Jure

In law and government, de facto describes practices that exist in reality, even though they are not officially recognized by laws, whereas de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality

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Selective Incorporation


The process by which provisions of the Bill of Rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.

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14th Amendment

granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States or who became a citizen of the country

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Tinker vs. Des Moines

Established that even students were entitled to First Amendment rights at school - Symbolic Speech 

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What school officials need to search students

Reasonable Suspicion

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Affirmative Action


Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.



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Establishment clause and what court case

Separation of church and state, Engel Vs. Vitale 

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5th Amendment

Self-incrimination and double jeporady
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Schenck v. United States

Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to express freedom of speech against the draft during World War I.


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Exclusionary Rule 

illegal evidence is not admissible in court

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denies government the right to deny people of life, liberty, or property without due process of law (trial)

due process clause/ equal protection

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Letter From Birmingham Jail

King details the principles of nonviolent direct action, exposes readers to the conditions endured by Black Americans, and defends his belief in the supremacy of moral law over an unjust legal code.
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8th Amendment

No excessive bail 

No cruel and unusual punishment

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SC held that arrested criminal suspects should be informed of their rights in

Miranda v. Arizona

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The _________ Amendment says that just because there is a special listing of SOME rights (certain rughts are ennumerated), does NOT mean that OTHER rights do not exist.

9th Amendment 

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Probable Cause

Reasonable cause for issuing a search warrant or making an arrest; more than mere suspicion.