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14th Amendment

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due process of law, EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW, privileges, freed slaves are citizens

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5th Amendment

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Due process of law

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Slaughter house cases

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Made privileges and immunities clause obsolete

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Procedural Due Process

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Steps the gov must go through when they take away your rights

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Substantive due process

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Right to privacy

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Griswold v CT

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Supreme court “found” right to privacy, contraceptives

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Penumbra Theory

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How the court found privacy in Griswold v CT

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Civil Liberties

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Bill of rights protections

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Civil Rights

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14th Amendment, “equal protection of laws”

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13th Amendment

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No slavery

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14th Amendment

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Citizenship for freed slaves

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15th Amendment

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Right to vote for freed slaves

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Barron v Baltimore

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Bill of rights only applies to nat gov… starts incorporation

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Incorporation

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Making the bill of rights apply to states case by case

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Chicago Burlington and Quincy RR v Chicago

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Incorporates eminent domain / just compensation if gov damages your property

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Gitlow v NY

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Incorporated free speech

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Cantwell v CT

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Incorporated free exercise of religion

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Everson v Board of Educatoin

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Incorporated establishment clause

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Roe v Wade

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Women have right to choose, trimester system

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Planned Parenthood v Casey

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Restrictions on first trimester are ok unless they present an undue burden to womens right to abortion

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Dobbs v Jackson

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Overturns Roe v Wade, states can decide

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Seperate but equal segregation not unconstitutional

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Brown v BoE

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overturns Plessy v Ferguson

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Bowers v Hardwick

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Right to privacy not given to homosexuals

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Lawrence v Texas
Reverses Bowers v Hardwick, equal privacy
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Schenk v US
Clear and present danger prohibited in free speech
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Dennis v US
Upheld Smith Act
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Yates v US
Overturns Dennis v US
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Brandenburg v Ohio
KKK, speech only punished if violence is likely or imminent
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Unprotected speech
False advertising, offensive and useless, imminent violence
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Fighting words doctrine
Offensive and useless speech can be banned
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Near v Minnesota
Incorporates free press, no censorship
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NYT v US
Pentagon papers can be published
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Engel v Vitale
School prayer unconsitutional
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Abbington School District v Schempp
Daily bible reading unconsitutional
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Wallace v Jaffree
Daily moment of silence unconsitutional
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Lynch v Donnelly
"santa clause test"
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Lemon v Kurtzman
Lemon test - must have non-religious purpose, can't help or hurt any religion, no excessive entanglement of gov and religion
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Roth v US
Obscenity decided at national level, stuff is obscene if it "appeals to the pruient interest"
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Miller v California
Obscene if it lacks serious artistic, political, literary, or scientific value
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WV State Board of Ed v Barnette
Students can't be forced to say pledge
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Reynolds v US
Polygamy can be banned
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Church of Lukumi Babalu Age v City of Hialeah
Animal Sacrifice can't be banned
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DC v Heller
Right to bear arms is individual
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McDonald v Chicago
Incorporated 2nd Amendment, no more banning guns
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Kelo v New London
Gov can take private property and give it to private companies
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Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
Bussing can be forced to desegregate schools
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Milliken v Bradley
Bussing only in areas with history of legal discrimination
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De Jure Segregation
Segregation by law, not allowed
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De Facto Segregation
Segregation by circumstance, allowed
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bans discrimination in public places
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ban poll taxes and literacy tests, registers black voters
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Mapp v Ohio
Exclusionary rule, illegal evidence thrown out

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