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50 Cards in this Set
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First Amendment Rights
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Freedom of:
Religion Speech Press Assembly Petition |
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Second Amendment Rights
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Right To Bear Arms
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Third Amendment Rights
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Forbids Quartering Soldiers
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Fourth Amendment Rights
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Protects person, house, papers, effects from unreasonable searches & seizures.
(Exclusionary Rule) |
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Fifth Amendment Rights
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Guarantee of:
Grand Jury (capital/infamous) No Double Jeopardy Eminent Domain (takeproperty) Prohibit Self-incrimination (pleade the fifth) Due Process |
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Sixth Amendment Rights
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Speedy Public Trial
Habeus Corpus Confront Witness Subpoena Witnesses Have lawyers |
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Seventh Amendment Rights
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Trial by jury for Common-Law cases
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Eighth Amendment Rights
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No excessive bail in federal cases
No cruel & unusual punishment |
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Ninth Amendment Rights
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Rights exist that arent in bill of rights
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Tenth Amendment Rights
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States have reserved powers (death penalty, speed limit, drinking age) as long as dosent contradict fereal law & constitution
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Rights of due process to all americans
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Fifteenth Amendment
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All males can vote
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Women can Vote
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment
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Eliminated Poll Taxes
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Twenty Sixth Amendment
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Lowered voting age from 21 to 18
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Gitlow Vs.New York
1925 |
"bad tendency doctrine"
(freedom of speech to state governments) |
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Schenck Vs. US
1919 |
"Clear and present Danger"
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Tinker Vs. Des Moines
1969 |
Public school students dont "shed their rights at schoolhouse door"
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Bethel Vs. Fraser
1986 |
Gave public schools authority to suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
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Texas VS. Johnson
1989 |
est. american flag burning can be symbolic speech
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Miller Vs. California
1973 |
Three-part Obscenity Test:
-Community Standards -Artistic/lit/political/scientific value? -Depict sexual behavior in an offensive manner? |
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Near VS. Minnesota
1931 |
est. state stopping publication is unconstitutional
Prevents prior restraint |
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NYTimesVs. Sullivan
1964 |
false publication thought to be true at the time of print is NOT libel. (is permitted)
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Hazelwood Vs. Kuhlmeier
1988 |
Regulating free speech in school newspaper
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Lemon vs. Kurtzmann
1971 |
Lemon test:
-Does law have secular rather than religious purpose? -Does law neither promote nor discourage religion? -Does law avoid "excessive entanglement" of gov & religious institutions |
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Engel Vs. Vitale
1962 |
Prohibits school prayer
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Abington Vs. Schempp
1963 |
Prohibits reading bible in school
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Epperson VS. Arkansas:
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Prohibited banning the teaching of evolution
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Wisconson Vs.. Yoder
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Amish may take kids out of school after 8th grade
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Mapp Vs. ohio
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est, Exclusionary Rule
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Gideon vs.Wainwright
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provide attorney for those who cant afford one
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Escobedo Vs. Illinois
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can get lawyer when asked for one.
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Miranda Vs. Arizona
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Informed of legal rights before arrested
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Furman vs. Georgia
1972 |
halt death penalty until less arbitrary (racist) method is found
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Gregg vs. Georgia
1976 |
Resumption of Death Penalty
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Atkins Vs. Virginia
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forbids execution of mentally retarded
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Griswold vs. connecticut
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est. Right to Privacy
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Roe vs. Wade
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Legalized Abortion
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Planned parenthood Vs. Casey
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gov can regulate abortion, but not impose "undue burden" on women
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Lawrence Vs. Texas
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Struck down sodomy law that criminalized homosexual sex in texas
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Made slavery Illegal
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Civil RightsAct 1964
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banned discrimination in public places
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Voting Rights Act 1965
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Banned Literacy tests
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Plessy Vs Ferguson
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"Seperate but equal Doctrine"
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
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seperate but equal NOT constitutional
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Katzenbach Vs.. McClung
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Civil rights act of 1964 applies to ALL businesses (even private)
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Regents of UC Vs. Bakke
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quotas requiring minorities unconstitutional, but affirmative action still legal to create diversity
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Voting Rights Act of 1982
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increase minority representation in house of representatives
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South Dakota vs. Dole
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fed withold state funding if states dont comply to age 21 drinking law
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US vs. Nixon
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Limited Executive Privlege
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