basic stuff Flashcards
Where are civil liberties and rights entrenched?
Bill of Rights
Which amendment gave Americans right of freedom of speech and religion?
1st
What does the 14th amendment give?
1868- former slaves counted as citizens, nation of everyone equal under law and no freedoms to be removed without ‘due process’
Which sc ruling legalised abortion?
Roe v Wade 1973
Which sc ruling legalised same-sex marriage?
Obergefell v Hodges 2015
What shows NRA’s size?
2018 all but 6 repubs received funding from them- nearly 13mil compared to 570,000 from all gun control groups
Name of a pro-choice group and one achievement
NARAL/Planned Parenthood- Roe v Wade, lobbying and donations
Term used for legal brief written by a ‘friend of the court’?
Amicus Curiae
Which pressure group demand civil liberties of all Americans?
American Civil Liberties Union- won ruling against intelligent design teaching for protecting rights of homosexuals
Which women’s rights amendment was not ratified?
Equal Rights Amendment- making it illegal to discriminate over sex. But, other leg has been passed and civil liberties entrenched same as men.
Statistics of incarceration of African Am
12% of adult pop but 33% in prison in 2016
Definition of affirmative action
Policies and practices inside a government or private organisation in order to increase the participation of minorities
What’s an example of an affirmative case that was struck down?
Adarand Constructors Inc. vs Pena in 1995 which was about racial preference when hiring subcontractors on government projects.
What did 2003 Gratz vs Bollinger rule?
Michigan uni’s undergraduate policy which awarded points to racial minority groups was unconstitutional because it wasn’t narrowly tailored to meet the goal of student body diversity
What was the 1996 California passed ballot initiative?
outlawed affirmative action in public employment, public contracting and public administration, university
Three examples of citizen action for civil rights?
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
Freedom Riders 1961
March for jobs and freedom 1963
Who did President Lyndon appoint in the cabinet that was an advancement?
Robert Weaver as secretary of Housing and Urban development.
What was Nixon’s cabinet described as?
‘grey-haired old men called George’
How many immigrants did Obama deport compared to Bush and Clinton?
Obama deported more than 3 million illegal immigrants, 12 million under Clinton and 10 million under Bush
What did the Trump Administration report in October 2019?
October 2019 That 5,500 children had been separated from their parents at the border
When was it a right of married women to use contraception?
1965
When did Nancy Pelosi become the first female speaker of the house?
2007
When did the Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic regulations that were forcing women’s clinics to close?
2016
