First of All...
The Common Good
Best of the Rest
Part of the Crowd
Shades of Grey
It's the Feds, Man
100
This category of individual rights have generally been held to take precedence over the right of assembly.
What are private property rights?
100
This is the only crime defined in the Constitution.
What is treason?
100
This 5th Amendment provision guarantees that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What is the prohibition against double jeopardy?
100
This is the legal process by which a person can become a citizen of another country.
What is naturalization?
100
This ideal holds that government must act fairly and in accord with established rules.
What is due process?
100
This Supreme Court case outlawed the policy of "separate but equal" in public schools, holding that there was no compelling interest in the legal separation of races.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
According to Thomas Jefferson, this provision of the First Amendment sets up "a wall of separation between church and state"?
What is the Establishment Clause?
200
According to the founders of the United States, this is the MAIN purpose served by government.
What is the protection of the peoples' unalienable rights?
200
This 5th Amendment provision prohibits a defendant from being forced to confess to a crime while on trial.
What is the guarantee against self-incrimination?
200
This immigrant group primarily came to the U.S. as refugees from their Caribbean island nation.
Who are Cuban Americans?
200
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act gave veterans more economic power and education by providing these three benefits to veterans.
200
This is the process by which the Supreme Court has extended most of the protections in the Bill of Rights to the States.
What is incorporation?
300
Government efforts to restrict the publication of ideas before they are expressed are known by this term.
What is prior restraint?
300
Police officers breaking into a home unlawfully to look for evidence would represent a violation of this type of due process.
What is procedural due process?
300
This doctrine prohibits the use in court of evidence gained as the result of an illegal act by the police.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
A native-born American citizen can lose his or her citizenship by doing this.
What is voluntarily abandoning (or renouncing) it?
300
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unable to require the desegregation of private schools because they did not receive funds from this source.
What is the federal government?
300
In Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court held that this action is a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.
What is burning the American flag?
400
In order to prevent government interference with the expression of opposing and unpopular views, the First Amendment establishes these two rights, which are collectively referred to as "the right to protest".
What are the rights of petition and assembly?
400
This term describes the authority of each State to act to protect the public.
What is the police power?
400
This Latin term is used to describe the Constitutional guarantee that protects a citizen from being held for a crime without good reason.
What is habeas corpus?
400
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 put an end to this system of admission based on percentages from each nation.
What is the quota system?
400
The discriminatory actions of the United States government towards both Native Americans and Hispanic Americans arose in part from this economic motive.
What is the desire to claim their land?
400
In recent cases, the Supreme Court has used the 14th Amendment to apply this amendment's protections of the right to keep and bear arms against the States.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
500
Federal, state, and local laws cannot prevent a peaceable assembly solely on this basis.
What is the content or ideas expressed?
500
When the Supreme Court finds the content of a discriminatory law to be unconstitutional, it has acted to uphold this type of due process.
What is substantive due process?
500
This standard of evidence would allow a police officer to search a boat that was suspected of being used for illegal activities, even without a search warrant.
What is probable cause?
500
This provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act gave illegal aliens already in the U.S. a one-year window to apply for legal residency.
What was amnesty?
500
This document, first presented at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, stated the case for women's rights in terms that deliberately mirrored the Declaration of Independence to highlight similarities to the plight of the American colonists.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
500
This case opened the door to cases based on discrimination against other minority groups in addition to African Americans.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?