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18 Cards in this Set
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1913-2005 African American seamstress and civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger; arrested Dec. 1, 1955; basis for challenging legality of segregation laws
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Rosa Parks
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Movement by African American-Americans citizens in the 1960s to gain equal civil rights and to end racial discrimination and segregation
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Civil Rights Movement
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1755-1835 4th Chief Justice; ruled that writs of mandamus were unconstitutional in Marbury vs. Madison; established precedent for judicial review
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John Marshall
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1891-1974 14th Chief Justice; ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation was unequal and therefore unconstitutional
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Earl Warren
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General agreement on standards of right and wrong that was more prevalent in early American than it is today.
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Moral Consensus
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; civil rights organization on behalf of African Americans to protect their rights
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NAACP
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1929-1968 Baptist minister and political activist; leader of civil rights movement in 60s; famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Case in which Supreme Court decided that abortion was protected by the Bill of Rights
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Roe vs. Wade
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Anonymous pseudonym used for Norma Leah McCorvey in Roe vs. Wade which legalized abortion; claimed to have been pregnant by rape but later admitted to fabricating the story and lobbied Supreme Court to reverse its decision
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Jane Roe
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b. 1945 Attorney with Linda Coffee in Roe vs. Wade Case
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Sarah Weddington
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The doctrine that the Constitution protects rights that are not explicitly stated or enumerated therein.
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Implied Rights
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When courts do not feel bound by the letter of the law nor by their own precedents; appropriate the legislative function of making laws in resolving issues
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Judicial Legislation
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A senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and editor of the Claremont review of books; Constitutional scholar, asserts there is a moral text in the constitution
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Charles Kesler
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The steady drift of the power form the states to the federal government with increasing involvement of the federal government in American life.
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Growth of Government
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The broadening judicial interpretation of personal rights that were construed fairly narrowly in the past.
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Growth of Personal Rights
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Constitutional clauses that were written to be interpreted in a more narrow or direct manner
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Narrow Construction
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Constitutional clauses that were written to be interpreted in a more broad or general manner.
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Broad Construction
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A broadening of the toleration that ought to be extended to an array of lifestyles, behaviors, choices and value systems as well as a decrease of government prescription in individuals' lives.
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Growth of Privacy
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