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Ch 9 - Amendments Flashcards

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Amendment 2

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Gun rights

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Amendment 1

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Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition

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Amendment 3

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No quartering of soldiers

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Amendment 4

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No unreasonable searches (privacy)

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Amendment 5

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No one forced to testify against themselves

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Amendment 6

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Speedy and public trial

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Amendment 7

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Trial by jury

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Amendment 8

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No cruel and unusual punishment

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Amendment 9

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Just because it’s not in the constitution doesn’t mean it’s not a right

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Amendment 10

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All powers not of the government are for the people

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Amendment 11

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Lawsuits between states

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Amendment 12

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Separate ballots for Pres and VP

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Amendment 13

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Abolished slavery

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Amendment 14

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Abolished slavery, did citizenship stuff

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Amendment 15

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Suffrage for former slaves

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Amendment 16

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Income tax

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Amendment 17

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Popular election of senators

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Amendment 18

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Prohibited production, transportation, and sale of alcohol

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Amendment 19

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Women’s suffrage

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Amendment 20

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Lame duck amendment - Changed date in which newly elected presidents, senators, and reps take office

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Amendment 21

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Repealed prohibition (18)

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Amendment 22

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Pres limited to 2 terms, 10 years max

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Amendment 23

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Granted DC number of electors equal to smallest state (3)

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Amendment 24

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No poll taxes

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Amendment 25

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Pres and VP succession

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Amendment 26

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Suffrage for 18-year-olds

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Amendment 27

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Congress can’t raise it’s own salary

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Bill of rights

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Statement of individual citizens legal privileges

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3 documents that formed the background to the American bill of rights

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Massachusetts Body of Liberties, English Bill of rights, virginia declaration of rights

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Establishment clause

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Congress shall make no law concerning an establishment of religion

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Free exercise clause

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Congress shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion

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3 purposes of establishment and free exercise clauses

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1) to prevent the establishment of a national religion
2) to safeguard the right to freedom of religion
3) to permit states to deal with religious establishment as they saw fit

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Lemon tests 3 criteria

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1) laws primary purpose must be secular
2) laws net effect on religion must be neutral
3) law must not entangle government with religion

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First free exercise case

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Reynolds v. United States (Supreme Court rules that Mormon polygamy

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Slander

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False speech used to destroy another’s reputation

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Libel

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False writing used to destroy another’s reputation

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Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

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Justice Murphy ruled that the right to free speech does not include lewd, profane, obscene, and libelous speech

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Dennis v. United States

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Court upheld conviction of eleven leaders of the American communist party for advocating revolution

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Pornography

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Obscene writings or pictures designed to arouse immoral thoughts, feelings, and desires

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Prior restraint

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Federal approval of all punished material before printing

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Roth v. United States

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Defined obscenity as anything without redeeming social value

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Miller v. California

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Court rejected its previous social value test

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Militia

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The armed citizenry

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Brady law

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Restricts sale of handguns by requiring a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun

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Warrant

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A written statement issued by a judge which gives a law officer the authority to search for a specific thing in a specific place

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Capital crime

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Punishable by death

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Felony

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Other serious crime (but not capital)

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Court martial

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Courts for trying members if the armed forces

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Eminent domain

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The right of civil government to take over a persons land or other private property for public use

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Bail

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A sum of money that a person deposits with the court in order to be temporarily released from jail

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Volstead act

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Enforced 18th amendment

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Lame duck

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An officeholder who continues I. His capacity although he has not been reelect end

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