Meredith Miller by Meredith Miller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Word Wall en-us 2018-03-22 12:46:28 UTC 2018-04-17 02:54:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Exclusionary Rule 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244957473 a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial.

]]> 2018-03-22 12:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244957473 Establishment Clause 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244958530 the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.

]]> 2018-03-22 12:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244958530 Due Process 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244959209 fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.

]]> 2018-03-22 12:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244959209 Double Jeopardy 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244960412 the prosecution of a person twice for the same offense.
  • risk or disadvantage incurred from two sources simultaneously.

]]> 2018-03-22 12:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244960412 Speech Plus 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244962355 The Constitutional Law of Leafleting, Picketing, and Demonstrating

]]> 2018-03-22 12:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244962355 Suspect Classifications 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244963967 A class of individuals that have been historically subject to discrimination. Any statute that makes a distinction between individuals based on any of the suspect classifications, will be subject to a strict scrutiny standard of review before the Supreme Court.


]]> 2018-03-22 13:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244963967 Probable Clause 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244966375 reasonable grounds for making a search and pressing a charge.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244966375 Bakke Case 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244967074 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244967074 Symbolic Speech 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244967786 Symbolic speech is a legal term in United States law used to describe actions that purposefully and discernibly convey a particular message or statement to those viewing it.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244967786 Incorporation Doctrine 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244968668 Incorporation is the process by which American courts have applied portions of the U.S. Bill of Rights to the states.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244968668 Engle v. Vitale 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244969415 Engel v. Vitale, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244969415 Brown v. Board 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244971061 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244971061 Miranda v. Arizona 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244972036 This case represents the consolidation of four cases, in each of which the defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation.



]]> 2018-03-22 13:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244972036 Equal Protection 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244973766 The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws."

]]> 2018-03-22 13:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244973766 Literacy Test 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244975037 From the 1890s to the 1960s, many state governments in the Southern United States administered literacy tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise racial minorities.

]]> 2018-03-22 13:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/244975037 Affirmative Action 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245416760 an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245416760 Jin Crow 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245417129 Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245417129 Civil Rights Act of 1964 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245418026 The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245418026 Roe v. Wade 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245420963 Roe v. Wade,  is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245420963 Dred Scott 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245422434 Dred Scott v. Sandford, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245422434 Plessy v. Ferguson 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245424707 Plessy v. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245424707 Gideon v. Wainright 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245425717 The court unanimously declared that indigent criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a court-appointed lawyer.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245425717 Rational Basis Test 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245426466 Rational basis review is a test courts may ise to determine the constitutionality of a statute or ordinance. To pass rational basis review, the challenged law must be rationally related to a legitimate government interest.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245426466 Free Exercise Clause 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245427044 Free Exercise Clause refers to the section of the First Amendment italicized here, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
The Free Exercise Clause reserves the right of American citizens to accept any religious belief and engage in religious rituals. Free-exercise clauses of state constitutions which protected religious “opinion, expression of opinion, and practice were all expressly protected” by the Free Exercise Clause.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245427044 Prior Restraint 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245428979 judicial suppression of material that would be published or broadcast, on the grounds that it is libelous or harmful. In US law, the First Amendment severely limits the ability of the government to do this.

]]> 2018-03-23 12:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245428979 2nd Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245430710 The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

]]> 2018-03-23 12:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245430710 4th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245431545 The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.]]> 2018-03-23 13:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245431545 5th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245432243 The Fifth Amendment imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes. It prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy and mandates due process of law.

]]> 2018-03-23 13:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245432243 Korematsu v. US 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245432706 Korematsu v. United States, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.

]]> 2018-03-23 13:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245432706 6th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245433523 The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you.

]]> 2018-03-23 13:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/245433523 Seditious Speech 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246016886 Seditious speech is speech directed at the overthrow of government. It includes speech attacking basic institutions of government, including particular governmental leaders.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246016886 7th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017273 This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017273 8th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017415 The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017415 14th Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017764 The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246017764 Defamatory Speech 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246018295 Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed. Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246018295 1st Amendment 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246018811 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246018811 Mapp v. Ohio 19mkmiller https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246019267 Mapp v. Ohio, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 19, 1961, ruled (6–3) that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures,” is inadmissible in state courts.

]]> 2018-03-26 11:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/19mkmiller/kce97ity5qnr/wish/246019267