Unit 3

Question 1

Purpose of the Bill of Rights

Answer 1

Protect individual liberties against the government

Question 2

Group that wanted the Bill of Rights

Answer 2

Anti-Federalist

Question 3

Civil Liberties

Answer 3

freedoms to think and act without government inteference or fearof unfair legal treatment

Question 4

Civil Rights

Answer 4

Policies designed toprotect people against discrimanatory treatment by government officials or individuals.

Question 5

First Amendment

Answer 5

Freedom of Religon, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition

Question 6

Establishment Clause

Answer 6

Clause in the First Amendment that says the government may not establish an official religon

Question 7

Engle v. Vitale
Lemon v. Kurtzman

Answer 7

Cases about the EStablishment Clause

Question 8

Free Exercise Clause

Answer 8

A first Amendment provision that prohibits government from interfereing with the practice of Religon

Question 9

Free Excercise Cases

Answer 9

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Question 10

Freedom of Speech/Expression

Answer 10

the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. The right to express one’s self publicly

Question 11

Cases about free speech

Answer 11

• Citizens United v. FEC
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Schneck v. U.S.
• Texas v. Johnson

Question 12

Reasonable government limitation on free speech

Answer 12

“clear and present danger”, Schneck v. United States, etc. to uphold public safety

Question 13

Freedom of the press

Answer 13

Right of newspapers and other public media to publish articles believed to be accurate without government intervention or restraint

Question 14

Cases about freedom of the press

Answer 14

New York Times v. United States

Question 15

What is prior restraint?

Answer 15

government censorship of information before it’s published or broadcast

Question 16

Civil Liberties/Rights while at school

Answer 16

Civil Liberties of students while at school can be reasonably limited

Question 17

School Speech

Answer 17

Speech at school canbe limited by school officials reasonably

Question 18

Cases about School Speech

Answer 18

• Bethel v. Fraser
• Morse v. Fredrick
• Hazelwood School district v. Kuhlmeier

Question 19

Second Amendment

Answer 19

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bea arms, shall not be infringed

Question 20

Cases about the second Amendment

Answer 20

• DC v. Heller
• McDonald v. Chicago

Question 21

14th Amendment

Answer 21

Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Cue Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, incorporation, and deals with post-Civil War issues

Question 22

fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially for citizens

Answer 22

Due Process

Question 23

Equal Protection Clause

Answer 23

14th amendment clause that prohibits states from denying qual protection under the law, and has been used to combat discrimination