Individual rights Flashcards
Can a non state actor violate your individual rights?
no, need the government to do it
13 amendment
Laws trying to fix any remaining instances of racial discrimination
13= Private citizen + race
privileges and immunities
about state A passing a law that discriminates against residents of state b because of their residency status
15th amendment
Racial discrimination relating the voting
equal protection or due process?
either doing a question about equal protection or due process, never together.
What does na equal protection question look like?
It about when certain people are tested differently than everyone else by the Government
When to apply what scrutiny level for equal protection?
Depends on who the people are
Strict scrutiny?
Race, alienage, national origin
elements:
Government has the burden to show the law was necessary to achieve a compelling interest
Intermediate scrutiny
Gender and illegitimate children
Government has the burden to show law was substantially related to an important interest
rational basis
Everyone else
Plaintiff has the burden to show the law is not rationally related to any legitimate interest
Substantive due process?
When the government is trying to take away rights from ALL OF US
What fundamental rights for substantive due process?
The right to travel interstate
The right to vote
The right to privacy
Right of free speech
All the rights to privacy?
- Contraception
2. abortion
3. marriage
4. procreation
5. private education
6. right to raise your family
Which amendments for EP and DP?
if state law, then 14. If CONGRESS, then 5th
Taking?
Government can take your private property for public use as long as they pay just compensation