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Unit 3 Review Flashcards

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Miranda Rights

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Miranda v. Arizona, right to remain silent

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Establishment clause

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1st amendment: gov. cannot promote a religion

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Free exercise clause

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1st amendment: people have a right to religion

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Habeas corpus

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Protects against unlawful imprisonment, must be brought to court

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Prior restraint

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Government censorship

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Ex post facto laws

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Cannot punish somebody for something when it was legal in the past

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Bills of attainder

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Punishment without trial, unconstitutional

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Obscenity and fighting words

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Unprotected speech

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Hate speech

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Protected speech (not a threat)

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Symbolic speech

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1st amendment: art, burning flag, etc

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Women’s suffrage movement

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Protests in support of women’s right to vote

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Orval Faubus

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Governor of Arkansas, blocked integrating of public school

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March on Washington

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March for civil rights, MLK’s “I have a dream speech” (August 28,1963)

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Korematsu v. U.S.

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Upheld the internment camps for Japanese americans

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Abolitionist, wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

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Exclusionary rule

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Cannot use illegally obtained evidence in court

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Grand jury

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Group of citizens who decide if someone goes on trial

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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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Ended sex discrimination (not passed)

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Espionage Act

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Prohibited activities that were disloyal (wartime)

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Lawrence v. Texas

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Cannot punish gay sex!

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Separate but equal

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Barron v. Baltimore

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Bill of rights doesn’t apply to the states

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Lemon test

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Tests for the establishment of a religion (1- secular purpose, 2- no advancement or prohibit of a religion, 3- no gov. entanglement)

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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Black people are not citizens

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Jim Crow Laws

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Legal racial segregation

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Wisconsin v. Yoder

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Freedom of religion, Amish family

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Slander and libel

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Defamation

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Separate but equal

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Doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson

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Review standards of law

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Strict scrutiny (race), intermediate scrutiny (gender), rational basis (age)

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NAACP

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Interest Group: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Black codes

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Enforced segregation and discrimination

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Dawes Act

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Creates divisions of land for natives

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Brown v. Board

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Separate is inherently unequal

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

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Military policy for gay people

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Rosa Parks

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Civil rights activist, boycott bus system

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Selective incorporation

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Case-by-case incorporation of the bill of rights to the states

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Affirmative action

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Gov. benefits to help a previously discriminated against group

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Griswold v. Connecticut

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Allowed married couples to use birth control

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Poll taxes

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Scared away black voters

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Seneca Falls Convention

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First meeting for women’s rights

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Title IX

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Prohibits sex based discrimination in school

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