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You Can’t

Do That

Church & State

Speak Up Crime &

Punish-ment

Make a Case for

It

Toward Equality

Mis-cell-any

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200 200 200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500 500 500

AP Government Jeopardy – Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Final Jeopardy! QuestionCivil Liberties & Civil Rights

Free Speech

A law making an action illegal retroactively; criminalizes acts that

were legal when committed

Prohibited by the Constitution

Ex post facto law

You Can’t Do That 100

Act of the legislature declaring a person or group guilty of some crime and punishing

them without benefit of a trial

Prohibited by the Constitution

Bill of attainder


Government cannot block peaceful protests, but it can limit freedom

of assembly in these ways (name two)

Time, place, and nature of protest


Exclusionary ruleEvidence obtained

illegally cannot be used against a person in a trial; extended to the

states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961)


Blocking publication or censoring a story before

it is published; the Supreme Court has

generally rejected this (in cases such as Near v.

Minnesota, New York Times v. U.S.)

Prior restraint


First Amendment prohibition against

government recognizing an official religion or

promoting one religion over another

Establishment clause

Church & State 100

Supreme Court ruled that requiring prayer in

school violated the establishment clause

and was unconstitutional

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Church & State 200

Must not result in “excessive

entanglement” between church & state, must not

advance or inhibit religion, much have a

secular purpose

Lemon Test

Church & State 300

First Amendment prohibition against

government interference in people’s right to practice a religion;

limited when it conflicts with another right or

compelling state interest

Free Exercise clause

Church & State 400

Supreme Court upheld a federal law prohibiting polygamy even though this was a limitation on free exercise of religion

Reynolds v. United States (1879)

Church & State 500

SCOTUS ruling on obscenity; established the following criteria: Not protected if it is patently offensive

judged by local standards and is without

any serious literary, artistic, political or

scientific value

Miller v. California (1973)

Speak Up 100

SCOTUS ruled that wearing black armbands to protest Vietnam War was protected symbolic

speech

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

Speak Up 200

SCOTUS held that speech was not

protected when it constituted a “clear and present danger” to the

country in wartime

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Speak Up 300

SCOTUS ruled that burning the U.S. flag

was a form of symbolic speech protected by the

First Amendment

Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Speak Up 400

Supreme court held that the plaintiff must prove

that the newspaper knowingly or

maliciously printed false information in order to

obtain damages for libel

New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

Speak Up 500

Writ of habeas corpusPrisoner’s right to a court review of his/her case to

determine if there is sufficient cause to keep

him/her in jail

Crime & Punishment 100

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Supreme Court ruled that those who cannot afford an attorney in criminal cases must have one provided by the state

government


Mapp v. Ohio (1961)Extended the exclusionary

rule to the states


Due ProcessThe process by which

citizens may be deprived of life, liberty or property – contained in the 4th, 5th, & 6th Amendments, and including a speedy and

public trial, right to confront witnesses, right

to an attorneyCrime & Punishment 400

Death penaltySupreme Court has

affirmed its constitutionality, except when used against the mentally disabled and

those under age 18


Roe v. Wade (1973)Supreme Court voided

state laws that outlawed all abortions, allowing

pregnancy termination in the first trimester; the state

has increasing power to regulate in subsequent

trimesters

Make a Case for It100

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action quotas

were unconstitutional; however, race can be

considered as one of many factors for college

admissions


Gitlow v. New York (1925)First case in which the

Supreme Court declared that First Amendment rights applied to state

governments


Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Supreme Court declared a state law banning the sale

of contraceptives unconstitutional; held that

birth control decisions were private matters not subject to state control

Make a Case for It 400

Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)Supreme Court declared

the internment of Japanese Americans in World War

II constitutional – justified by a compelling national

interest in preventing spying in wartime

Make a Case for It 500

Equal protection clauseContained in the

Fourteenth Amendment; protects minorities from discrimination by state

governments

Toward Equality 100

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Abolished poll taxes in 1964, which were used to

subvert the Fifteenth Amendment and keep

African Americans from voting

Toward Equality 200

Civil Rights Act of 1964Landmark legislation that banned racial segregation

in schools, public transportation, public

facilities, and employment – ending Jim Crow

Toward Equality 300

Voting Rights Act of 1965Landmark legislation that outlawed discriminatory

voting practices (like literacy tests) responsible

for widespread disenfranchisement of

African Americans in the South

Toward Equality 400

Affirmative actionPolicy designed to correct

effects of past racial or gender discrimination by giving certain preferences

in education and employment to these

groups

Toward Equality 500

Civil libertiesRights belonging to all

citizens guaranteed by the Constitution, federal laws,

and court decisions

Mis-cell-any100

Eminent domainThe power of the

government to take private property for public use; must follow due process of law and must provide

just compensationEx: Seizing property to

build a highway

Mis-cell-any 200

Selective incorporationApplication of the rights guaranteed in the Bill of

Rights to state governments through the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Mis-cell-any 300

Right to privacySupreme Court has

determined that this right is implied in the First,

Third, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments –

though it is never explicitly stated in the

Constitution

Mis-cell-any 400

Civil rightsRight of minority groups

to be free from discrimination by the

majority

Mis-cell-any 500

• Name three limitations on the freedom of speech

FINAL JEOPARDY

• Libel and slander laws• Obscenity laws

• Laws against incitement of violence (“clear and present danger”)

FINAL JEOPARDY

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