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61 Cards in this Set
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13th amendment |
Outlawed slavery, overruling the 10th amendment |
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14th amendment |
Promised us citizenship to anyone born in the us, included the due process clause |
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Due process clause |
Ensures all citizens would be offered due process in court as criminal defendants |
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Equal protection clause |
Guaranteed that govt would treat all citizens the same |
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15th amendment |
Prohibited states from denying a vote to anyone "on account if race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
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Freedmen's bureau |
Led to reconstruction programs to rebuild southern states |
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Civil rights act of 1875 |
Made it illegal for privately owned places of public accommodation to make distinctions between black and white patrons. |
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Civil rights cases |
Declares the 14th amendment did not confer new powers to Congress. |
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Jim crow laws |
Separate but equal |
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How did states circumvent the 15th amendment |
Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clause, white primary |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
Institutionalized separation, plessy argues violation of the 14yh amendment. |
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NAACP |
Seeks justice and equality |
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Dubois |
Director if NAACP, wrote the crisis |
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Guinn v US |
Challenged the grandfather clause |
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Buchanan v. Warley |
Ruled govt imposed residential segregation a constitutional violation. |
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Smith v allwright |
Ended the all white primary |
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Missouri ex reliever Haines v canada |
If a state excludes black students from one institution, that state must provide an equal alternative for those students. |
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Mclaurin v Oklahoma and sweatt v painter |
Separate schools were not equal and that states had to admit black seeking advanced degrees |
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Kenneth and mamie Clark |
Doll experiment proved segregation wa physiologically damaging black children |
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Brown v board |
Ended segregation |
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Brown ll |
With all deliberate speed |
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Civil rights act of 1965 |
Prevents states form unequal voter requirements, file suits on unsegregated schools, outlawed discriminatory hiring practices, private businesses cannot discriminate who they serve |
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Heart of Atlanta motel v us |
Cannot discriminate in private businesses |
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Katzenberg v mcclung |
Interstate wa still subject to law because many restaurants items come from out of state |
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24th amendment |
Outlaws poll taxes |
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Voting rights act of 1965 |
Preclearance-syayes had to ask for any new voter qualifications, empowered congress and states to oversee state elections in southern states |
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Shelby v holder |
Struck down the formula that determines which districts are covered |
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Freedom of choice |
Placed the transfer burden on the black student |
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Cooper v aaron |
Potential violence was not legal justification to delay compliance with brown |
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Green v county board of new Kent |
Freedom of choice play es weren't satisfactory remedy for integration. |
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Swann v Charlotte mecklenburg |
Assigned students to school districts to meet diversity in that district |
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Muller v Oregon |
State had right to create law that treated women differently |
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National organization for women. |
Encouraged women to apply for Male dominated jobs and go to college |
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Strict scrutiny |
Process courts use to determine the constitutionality of certain laws |
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Title IX |
Equal funding |
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The right to choose |
Roe v wade |
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Roe v wade |
Right to privacy |
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Reed v reed |
Arbitrarily favored men over women |
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Craig v boren |
Reasonableness standard |
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Equal rights amendment |
Equality of rights under law cannot be denied on account of sex |
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Obergefell v Hodges |
Struck down laws prohibiting same sex marriage |
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Bowers v hardwicke |
Criminalized sodomy |
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Lawrence v texas |
Chat discriminate on a person's sexual orientation |
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Barron v Baltimore |
Did not restraint state action. Boats. |
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Gitlow v NY |
Free speech is not absolute. |
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Near v Minnesota |
Freedom of the press extends through the states through the 14th amendment |
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Prior restraint |
Govt cannot stop publication. |
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Schenck v us |
Established clear and present danger |
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Yates v US |
Smith act under fire. |
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Us v O Brian |
Burned service card. |
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Brandenburg v Ohio |
Cannot punish a speaker unless it can prove the speech was directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless acts |
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Obscenity |
The 1st amendment doesn't protect it, no national standard defines it |
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Roth v us |
Obscene if the average person applying contemporary community standard finds that it appeals to the prurient interest |
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Cohen v California |
F the draft shirt. One man's vulgarity is anothers lyric |
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Miller v California |
Cant mail obscene stuff |
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Tinker v des Moines |
Black arm band. Violation of school code, upheld in court. |
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Bethel schools v Fraser |
Got suspended from school for sexual innuendos during speech |
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Weeks v us |
Exclusionary rule qh in states that evidence the fed govt finds in violation of the 4th amendment can be excluded from trial |
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Gideon's v Wainwright |
States must pay for public defenders if defendants cannot pay for one |
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Miranda v Arizona |
Miranda rights |
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Griswold v Connecticut |
Birth controls holding. Right to privacy. |