Chapter Seven Flashcards
Barron v Baltimore
Established a precedent that the freedoms guaranteed by the bill of rights did not restrict the state’s government, only federal government,
Fourteenth Amendement
The due process clause and the equal protection clause
Fourteenth Amendement
No state should….
Gitlow v New York
Personal rights and liberties protected by the Due process Clauss of the Fourteenth Amendement.
Gitlow v New York
Began the incorporation of the Due process Clause to extend most of the requirement of the Bill of rights to the states
Incorporation procces
Was slow and Supreme Court has used a serious of individual decisions to incorporate the bill of rights to the states
First amendment
Establishment clause and free exercise clause
First amendment
Congress shall make no law…
Thomas Jefferson
Contend that the first amendent created a wall of separation between church and state
Engel v Vital
Prayer violated the establishment clause of the first amendment as applied to the states through the fourteenth Amendement
Engle v Vitale
State sponsored prayers in public schools was an unconstitutional violation.
Lemon v Kurtzman
Declared that aid to church related school must meet the following three test.
No public elementary and Secondary education Act
Allowed the states Superintendent of public instruction to reimburse church related schools.
Oregon v smith
Supreme Court banned illegal drugs in religious ceremonies
Oregon v Smith
Religion cannot make an act legal that would other wise be illegal
Reynolds v United States
Polygamy should be overturned because it was his religion duty to marry multiple times
Reynolds v United States
Supreme Court made an important distinction between religious beliefs and religious practices
Reynolds v United States
Permitting polygamy would make professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself
The first and fourteenth Amendement
Protect freedom of speech from incursions of both the federal and state government
The espionage Act of 1917
Prohibited forms of dissent deemed to be harmful to the nation’s war effort in WWI