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1. What is the 14th Amendment ?
2. Describe the holding of McDonald v. Chicago and include the piece of the US Constitution the Court used.
3. How has selective incorporation weakened state governments?
4. How has the 14th Amendment's due process clause been used to expand individual liberties?
5. What is the 5th Amendment?
6. Description of these Due Process
- Procedural
- Substantive
7. What is the exclusionary rule?
8. What are the exceptions to the exclusionary rule? Describe them
9. What is the purpose of the 2015 USA FREEDOM ACT?
10. What is the public safety exception to the Miranda Warning?
11. What is the 6th Amendment?
12. Describe the holding of Gideon v. Wainwright and include the piece of the US Constitution the Court used.
13. What does the "right to privacy" come from? (include multiple answers)
14. Describe the holding of Roe v. Wade and include the piece of the US Constitution the Court used.
15. What are civil rights?
16. How does the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fight to advance civil rights?
17. What is Title IX?
18. Why is the issue of gay marriage a complicated topic for the federal government?
19. What was the "don't ask don't tell" policy?
20. What was the Defense of Marriage Act?
21. Why is Obergefell v. Hodges important?
22. Have Supreme Court rulings at times limited civil rights?
23. Describe how the equal protection clause has inspired social movements.
24. What three Constitutional Amendments were passed to free the slaves and create equality for African Americans? Describe them.
25. What is included in the 14th Amendment?
26. The 14th Amendment does not specifically identify that its purpose is to protect people who were"slaves". Because of this, what other groups have claimed the protection of the 14th Amendment?
27. How did Southern states attempt to bypass the 15th Amendment? Describe each method.
28. Describe the Jim Crows.
29. Describe the NAACP's "Clark Doll" test.
30. Describe the holding of Brown v. Board of Education and include the piece of the US Constitution the court used.
31. JFK's Civil Rights bill was meant to be a wide and all-encompassing bill to dance Civil Rights. What was included in JFK's vision of a Civil Rights bill?
32. What "swayed" public opinion towards supporting JFK's Civil Rights vision?
33. What kind of informal powers did LBJ use to drive the Civil Rights Act of 1964 toward ratification?
34. "You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you have been completely fair."
Summarize this quote from LBJ
35. Complete the chart below-containing viewpoints regarding affirmative action.
-View in Support of Affirmative Action
-Views in Opposition to Affirmative Action
36. Why is Affirmative Action still in a "gray area" of government?