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23 Cards in this Set
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Civil Rights
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Rights to personal liberty (granted to all)
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Inherent Characteristics
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Characteristics given by birth
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Suspect Classifications
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Any group with characteristics that make them likely to be discriminated.
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Strict Scrutiny Test
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The most rigorous standard of the judicial review.(Race, Religion, and National Origin)
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Intermediate Scrutiny Test
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The second most rigorous standard of the judicial review.
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Rational Basis Test
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The default and least rigorous of the judicial reviews.
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Hate Crime
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A violent, prejudice motivated crime that occurs based on suspect classification.
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Civil Disobedience
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The active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of the government.
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Standing to Sue
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The ability to present evidence that supports your participation in a case.
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Reconstruction Era
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(1865-1877) Rebuilding after the Civil War.
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Black Codes
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Laws passed by the southern states, after the Civil War, that limited African-American freedoms.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws enforcing racial segregation
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De jure
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of right, by right, according to law
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White Primary
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Election where only whites were allowed to vote
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Literacy Test
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A test of a person's understanding of a particular language.
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Poll Tax |
A tax or fee levied as a precondition of exercising the right to vote.
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Grandfather Clause
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If your grandfather had a right, it was given to you.
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Plessy v Furgeson
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Upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation to be "separate, but equal"
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Equal Protection Clause
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says that no state shall deny any person in its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the law"
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Separate but Equal Doctrine
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Justified and permitted racial segregation
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
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established segregated schools to be unconstitutional
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Intersectionality
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The study of intersecting social identities of gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, religion, caste, age and more.
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Affirmative Action
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The policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture.
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