Noah Drake-Patton by NOAH DRAKE-PATTON https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh Bill of Rights Word Wall en-us 2016-10-28 12:41:35 UTC 2016-11-03 00:35:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Exclusionary Rule 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870412 A law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in criminal trial.]]> 2016-10-28 12:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870412 Establishment Clause 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870493 The clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.]]> 2016-10-28 12:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870493 Due Process 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870571 The Fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.]]> 2016-10-28 12:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870571 Double Jeopardy 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870615 Double jeopardy is a procedural defence that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same charges in the same case following a legitimate acquittal or conviction.]]> 2016-10-28 12:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870615 Suspect Classifications 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870694 A class of individuals that have been historically subject to discrimination.]]> 2016-10-28 12:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870694 Probable Clause 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870763 Reasonable grounds.]]> 2016-10-28 12:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870763 Symbolic Speech 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870803 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.]]> 2016-10-28 12:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870803 Poll Tax 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870888 You can tax people when they vote]]> 2016-10-28 12:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870888 Engle v. Vitale 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870903 Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 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.]]> 2016-10-28 12:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133870903 Brown v. Board 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871022 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, 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.]]> 2016-10-28 12:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871022 Equal Protection 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871107  no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".]]> 2016-10-28 12:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871107 Mapp v. Ohio 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871125 A landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as in federal criminal law prosecutions in federal courts as had previously been the law. ]]> 2016-10-28 12:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871125 Literacy Test 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871184 These were used to deny suffrage to African Americans.]]> 2016-10-28 12:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871184 Jim Crow 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871266 Laws:the former practice of segregating black people in the US.]]> 2016-10-28 12:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871266 Roe v. Wade 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871286 A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. It was decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life.]]> 2016-10-28 12:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871286 Plessy v. Ferguson 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871340 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".]]> 2016-10-28 12:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871340 Gideon v. Wainright 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871442 In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves. The case began with the 1961 arrest of Clarence Earl Gideon.]]> 2016-10-28 12:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871442 Rational Basis Test 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871497 When a court concludes that there is no fundamental liberty interest or suspect classification at stake, the law is presumed to be Constitutional unless it fails the rational basis test. Under the rational basis test, the courts will uphold a law if it is rationally related to a legitimate government purpose.

]]> 2016-10-28 12:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871497 Free Exercise Clause 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871546
“Congress shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise (of religion)” is called thefree-exercise clause of the First Amendment. The free-exercise clause pertains to the right to freely exercise one's religion. It states that the government shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
]]> 2016-10-28 12:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871546 Dred Scott 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871571 Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.]]> 2016-10-28 12:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871571 1st Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871589 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.]]> 2016-10-28 12:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871589 2nd Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871964 "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."]]> 2016-10-28 12:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133871964 4th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872044 The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."]]> 2016-10-28 12:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872044 5th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872070 The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."]]> 2016-10-28 12:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872070 6th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872101 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.  It has been most visibly tested in a series of cases involving terrorism, but much more often figures in cases that involve (for example) jury selection or the protection of witnesses, including victims of sex crimes as well as witnesses in need of protection from retaliation.]]> 2016-10-28 12:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872101 7th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872238 Seventh Amendment - Civil Trials. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.]]> 2016-10-28 12:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872238 8th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872270 The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment.]]> 2016-10-28 12:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872270 14th Amendment 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872301 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.]]> 2016-10-28 12:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872301 Slander/Libel 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872328 Defamation is an area of law that provides a civil remedy when someone's words end up causing harm to your reputation or your livelihood. Libel is a written or published defamatory statement, while slander is defamation that is spoken by the defendant.]]> 2016-10-28 12:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872328 Seditious Speech 17ndrakepatton https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872384 Seditious speech is speech directed at the overthrow of government. It includes speech attacking basic institutions of government, including particular governmental leaders.]]> 2016-10-28 12:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17ndrakepatton/qeol71qkwyxh/wish/133872384