Jeopardy Ch 15 & 16

Question 1

Protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your person, houses, papers and effects

Answer 1

What is the 4th Amendment

Question 2

Gives you the right to know of charges against you, face your accuser, and also to have counsel, i.e. an attorney

Answer 2

What is the 6th Amendment

Question 3

The Constitutional Amendment that gives you the right to remain silent. It also says you can’t be tried twice for the same crime or beach private of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

Answer 3

What is the 5th Amendment

Question 4

Guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases, involving amounts more than $20

Answer 4

What is the 7th Amendment

Question 5

Ensures that criminals will not be punished in ways deemed cruel and unusual

Answer 5

What is the 8th Amendment

Question 6

The Supreme Court decision referred to an emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to contact the private lives in matters pertaining to sex

Answer 6

What is Lawrence vs. Texas

Question 7

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence against a person that was obtained in violation of the 4th Amendment cannot be used in a criminal prosecution

Answer 7

What is Mapp vs Ohio

Question 8

The Constitutional right to privacy, which the Supreme Court had established in an earlier ruling, provided the basis for the decision in this case, which supported a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion under specified circumstances

Answer 8

What is Row vs. Wade

Question 9

This Amendment in the Bill of Rights states that the people may have additional rights that are not enumerated in the Bill of Rights itself. It was an important part of the argument for the existence of a right to privacy

Answer 9

What is the 9th Amendment

Question 10

In this case the Supreme Court found, for the first time, a right to privacy implicit in the Constitution

Answer 10

What is Griswold vs. Connecticut

Question 11

In this case the Supreme Court decided to that students in Iowa could wear black armbands to school in protest of the war in Vietnam, since doing so was a valid form of symbolic speech

Answer 11

What is Tinker vs. Des Moines

Question 12

The Supreme Court decision in this case proposed a set of questions courts can use to decide whether an individuals or groups right to free exercise of religion has been violated by the government

Answer 12

What is Sherbet vs. Verner

Question 13

This controversial Supreme Court decision ruled that the government cannot limit the independent political expenditures of corporations, thus allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections (though they remain limited in the amount they can give to individual candidates for political parties)

Answer 13

What Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission

Question 14

The first Amendment protects liberty in the six different aspects

Answer 14

What is freedom from established religion, free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances

Question 15

This Supreme Court decision outlined a test to use in determining whether a federal or state governments have engaged in an unconstitutional establishment of religion

Answer 15

What is Lemon vs. Kurtzman (origin of the lemon test)

Question 16

In this case the Supreme Court ruled that while affirmative action policies are constitutional such policies may not contain quotas

Answer 16

What is Regions of the University of CA vs. Bakke

Question 17

This Supreme Court decision established the separate but equal doctrine

Answer 17

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 18

This clause in the 14th Amendment says that no state shall deny anyone with in its jurisdiction equal protection of the laws

Answer 18

What is the Equal Protection clause

Question 19

These three Amendments to the Constitution, which had the central purpose of promoting equality for the formally enslaved population of the Southern States, together are known as the Civil War Amendments or Reconstruction Amendments

Answer 19

What is the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments

Question 20

In this landmark decision, the Supreme Court overturned the separate but equal doctrine that the Court itself had established roughly 60 years earlier

Answer 20

What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 21

In this early 1819 Supreme Court decision, which concerned Congress’s power to establish a national bank, the Court ruled that Congress has implied powers and that individual states cannot take actions that interfere with the valid exercise of Federal power

Answer 21

What is McCullough vs. Maryland

Question 22

This Supreme Court decision lead to the injunction for arresting officers to inform suspects of their rights under the Constitution

Answer 22

What is Miranda vs. Arizona

Question 23

In deciding this case the Supreme Court ruled that the second amendment protects the right of an individual citizen to own a handgun

Answer 23

What is District of Columbia vs. Heller

Question 24

In this early Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice John Marshall argued that in deciding cases the judicial branch has the power to determine whether laws are constitutional or not, a power known as a judicial review

Answer 24

What is Marbury vs. Madison

Question 25

This clause in the 14th Amendment laid the primary basis for the Supreme Court to apply the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the States

Answer 25

What is the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment