POL 104, American Government

CHAPTER 3: CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause

Gitlow v. New York*, Gitlow doctrine*, incorporation doctrine*

First Amendment “Freedom of Expression”: freedom of speech, freedom of the press

clear and present danger test

incitement test (fighting words*)

prior restraint

obscenity

libel (slander, defamation*)

actual malice

symbolic speech

First Amendment Religion Clauses: establishment clause, free exercise clause

Lemon test or Lemon v. Kurtzman test

Criminal Procedure

presumption of innocence

ex post facto laws

bills of attainder

Fourth Amendment: unreasonable search and seizure

probable cause

warrant

exclusionary rule

Fifth Amendment: Miranda rights

plea bargain

capital case

Sixth amendment: assistance of counsel

misdemeanor

felony

capital case

Eighth Amendment: cruel and unusual punishment

Ninth Amendment: privacy rights

Roe v. Wade

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause: Racial equality

equality of opportunity

equality of condition

equality of result

Thirteenth Amendment

separate-but-equal or Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Act of 1964

de facto segregation

de jure segregation*

affirmative action

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fifteenth Amendment*

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