Created on April 21, 2024
Terms in this set (19)
Civil Liberties
.the constitutional and other legal protections against government actions.
civil rights
Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.
Fourteenth Amendment
A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.
Prior restraint
A government preventing material from being published. This is a common method of limiting the press in some nations, but it is usually unconstitutional in the United States, according to the First Amendment and as confirmed in the 1931 Supreme Court case of Near v. Minnesota. (censorship of a publication)
Libel
A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or property rights.
Slander
the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
Symbolic speech
nonverbal communication, such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.
Exclusionary rule
A rule that provides that otherwise admissible evidence cannot be used in a criminal trial if it was the result of illegal police conduct
Mapp v. Ohio
Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Griswold v. Connecticut
Established that there is an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Suffrage
(the right to vote) in political elections.
Jim Crow Era
an era in the South where laws are made segregating African Americans
White primary
primary election in which Southern states allowed only whites to vote.
Grandfather Clause
allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction.