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50 Cards in this Set
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These protect our personal freedoms and liberties. |
Civil liberties |
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These protect groups from discrimination. |
Civil Rights
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Thisprevents an unfair arrest and imprisonment. |
Habeascorpus
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This prevents making an act a crime, when the time theact was committed it was not unlawful
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Expost facto laws |
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This prevents a law or laws from being written againstan individual or group.
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Bills of atainder |
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This amendment has the due process clause. |
14th amendment
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This amendment has the equal protection clause.
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14th amendment
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Which amendment defines American citizenship?
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14th amendment
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Which contains the correct amendments protecting rights of the accused?
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4th, 5th, 6th, 8th
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Which amendment prevents an unlawful search andseizure?
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4th
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Which amendment prevents double jeopardy and self-incrimination?
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5th
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Which amendment prevents cruel and unusual punishment? |
8th
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Which amendment guarantees a grand jury for capitalcrimes and the right to face your accuser?
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6th
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What clause in the 1st Amendment creates the wall between church andstate? |
Establishment Clause
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Which clause in the 1st Amendment says you can believe whatever you want? |
Free exercise clause
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What is prior restraint?
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You are free of government censorship |
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What are the types of defamatory speech? |
Libel and slander
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Which amendment asserts we have more rights thanstated in the Constitution?
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9th
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Which amendment refers to the reserved rights of thestates and “to the people”?
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9th
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What does the government use to keep from entanglin gwith religious institutions? |
The lemon test
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This amendment abolished slavery.
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13th |
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This amendment guarantees our civil rights andliberties.
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14th |
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This type of segregation occurred in the North. |
De facto segregation
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This type of segregation occurred in the South. |
De jure segregation & Jim Crow Laws
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This Supreme Court ruling held segregation to be constitutional. |
Plessey v Ferguson
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This Supreme Court ruling held segregation to beunconstitutional.
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Brownv Board of Education (Topeka) 1954 |
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What is the 15th Amendment? |
Right to vote (men) |
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What is the 19th Amendment?
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Women's suffrage |
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Which amendment gave 18y/o the right to vote?
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26th
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What amendment outlawed poll taxes? |
24th |
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When was the Voting Rights Act ratified?
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1965 |
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When was the Fair Housing Act ratified? |
1968
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What was the ERA?
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Equal Rights Amendment |
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What is the name of the 1978 reverse discrimination case? |
Bakke
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What were the historic origins of American “Chinatowns?”
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Crowded Ghettos
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What civil rights act for people with disabilities was ratified in 1990? |
The ADA
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What institution did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 establish?
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The EEOC
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What group benefitted most from affirmative action?
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Women |
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Who led the civil rights movement during the 1960’s? |
Martin Luther King
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When did Native Americans get the right to vote?
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1924by Congressional statute |
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When did women get the right to vote?
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1920 |
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Which answer is an example of symbolic speech? |
Burningthe American flag Wearinga political-inspired armband |
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What amendment has the exclusionary rule found thatprohibits any evidence in a trail that was not gathered by a court-ordered warrant?
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4th, 5th, 6th
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What year was the Stonewall Inn riot that began the gays struggle for equal rightsand where did it occur? |
1969 NYC
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What did the court rule in the Bakke Case? |
That affirmative action quotas were illegal |
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What year was affirmative action implemented?
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1964 |
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What organization led the civil rights movement? |
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP
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What test is used by the Supreme Court to prevent the government’s entanglement with religion?
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The lemon test
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What are Miranda Rights?
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Civil rights at moment of arrest
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When does “due process” begin? |
When police turn on their red lights
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