Chapter 14 Flashcards
Civil rights movement
Movement by African-Americans citizens in the 1960s to gain equal civil rights and the end reticle discrimination and seriation
John Marshall
Fourth Chief Justice of the united states, Marshall ruled that Rit of mandamus were manner bury versus Madison, thereby establishing a president for political review.
Earl Warren
14th Chief Justice and Supreme Court, orange rolls and Brown V. Board of Education that segregation was unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
Moral consensus
A general agreement on the standards of right and wrong that was more prevalent in early America than it is today.
NAACP
National Association for the advancement of colored people. Civil rights organization on behalf of African-Americans to protect their rights.
Martyn Luther King
A Baptist minister was and and political activist, King was also a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous speech was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, entitled “I have a dream.”
Row V. Wade
Case in which the Supreme Court decided that abortion was protected by the Bill of Rights
Jane row
The anonymous pseudo name for Norma Lee McCorvey in the landmark case Row V. Wait, which legalized abortion. McCorvey initially claimed to have been pregnant by rate but in the 1980s confessed that she had fabricated that rape story. She also became a pro life activist and lobbied the Supreme Court to reverse it decision.
Sarah Weddington
Attorney with Linda coffee in the row V Wade case
Implied rights
The doctrine that the Constitution protects rights that are not explicitly stated or enumerated in the rain.
Judicial legislation
When courts do not feel bound by the letter of the law nor buy their own presidents, and instead of pro Bree at the legislative function of making laws in resolving issues.
Charles Kessler
A senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and editor of the Claremont review of books. He received his PhD in that government from Harvard University it is currently director of the Henry Salvatori center at Claremont McKenna College. And constitutional scholar Kessler asserts there is a moral text in the Constitution.
Growth of the government
The study drift of power from the states to the federal government, with increasing involvement of the federal government in American life.
Growth of personal rights
Broadening the judicial interpretation of personal rights that were construed fairly nearly in the past.
Narrow construction
Constitutional classes that were written to be interpreted in a more narrow or direct manner.