Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that school sponsored prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the first amendment, according to what Supreme Court Case?
What is Engel v Vitale (1962)?
The Supreme Court case that ruled abortion would be left up to the states to decide (10th amendment).
What is Dobbs v Jackson (2022)?
These are freedoms ALL people get as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
What are civil liberties?
The political party is that considered the liberal or left-wing option in the US.
What is the Democratic Party?
These are ways people can get involved in politics.
What is voting?
What is being involved in government meetings?
What is reaching out to a government official?
The Supreme Court case West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette determined that school children do not have to participate in this activity.
What is the pledge of allegiance?
The Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage across the United States?
What is Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)?
These rights protect Some marginalized groups against discrimination.
What are civil rights?
The biggest factor in shaping one's political views.
What is family?
This clause prohibits the Government from establishing a common religion amongst the American people.
What is the establishment clause?
The Supreme Court ruled that public school officials cannot censor student expression (“students do not check their rights at the schoolhouse gates”) in what Supreme Court Case from the 1960s?
What is Tinker v Des Moines (1969)?
This is the primary issue and question in the Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson.
What is the right to privacy?
These are examples of civil liberties.
What is freedom of speech, religion, and the press, the right to assemble and protest, the right to a fair trial, and protection from unreasonable searches and seizures?
An example of this can be seen in the 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, in which gay marriage was legalized across the United States. States were not allowed to ban the practice anymore.
What is federalism?
This first constitution of the US was weak and gave very little power to the presidency.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the amendment that was determined not to be violated by the school in the case New Jersey v TLO (1985). Schools only need reasonable suspicion to search a student.
What is the 4th amendment?
According to this Supreme Court Case, police officers who arrest suspects must read them their Miranda rights to remain silent and get an attorney.
What is Miranda v Arizona (1966)?
An event in which peaceful marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This led to action by the government to pass legislation.
What is Bloody Sunday or the Selma March?
This principle can be seen in the concept of three branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
This was added to the Constitution to limit the power and potential abuses of the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Supreme Court case that ruled poor people are entitled to a lawyer while they are being tried of a crime in court.
What is Gideon v Wainwright?
This ability is allowed by the Supreme Court case Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (2010).
What is the ability to donate unlimited money to independent political efforts (Super PACS)?
This federal legislation eliminated racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This part of the Constitution addresses the duty that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state."
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The amendment that protects individuals by guaranteeing several rights in legal proceedings, including the right to a grand jury indictment, protection against double jeopardy, the right against self-incrimination (the right to remain silent), and the right to due process of law.
What is the 5th Amendment?