The Bill of Rights refers to the _____ amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

___ set the precedent for the trial by military commission of any unlawful combatant against the U.S.

The difference between civil rights and civil liberties is

The ____ believed provisions such as the elastic clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution would allow Congress to legislate on matters well beyond the limited ones foreseen by the Founding Fathers.

The ____ Amendment affords rights in criminal cases, including due process and indictment by grand jury for capital crimes, as well as the right not to testify against oneself.

The _____ Acts allowed the president to imprison or deport foreign citizens he believed were "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and to restrict speech and newspaper articles that were critical of the federal government or its officials.

The ____ Amendment ensures the right to not face excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment.

The 14th Amendment's ____ clause says "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law."

Which entity was responsible for the process of selective incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the practices of the states?

The ____ clause prohibits Congress from creating or promoting a state-sponsored religion.

The ____ clause limits the ability of the government to control or restrict religious practices.

Censorship in the U.S. was at a high point during

Since the 1960s, overall, the Supreme Court became more ____ on free expression rulings.

In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning

The Supreme Court case that found some gun control laws in violation of the Second Amendment and that this amendment does protect an individual's right to keep and bear arms, at least in some circumstances ("for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home") was

____ is the legal standard for determining whether a search or seizure is constitutional or a crime has been committed.

The ____ clause of the ____ Amendment states in part that "No State shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Colleges that require students have a high school diploma or a particular score on the SAT or ACT or a GPA above a certain number are allowed to effectively "discriminate" against prospective students who do not meet these requirements. The courts apply _____ to find this type of discrimination constitutional.

Despite the 15th Amendment, African American men were kept from voting in certain states. In some states, poorer, less literate white voters feared being disenfranchised by the literacy and understanding tests. Some states thus introduced a loophole that allowed less literate whites to vote. This was called the _____ clause.

____ was a Supreme Court case that allowed segregation to continue. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned this decision in _______

African American grassroots organizations adopted strategies of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, or the refusal to obey an unjust law. These strategies had been effective in a campaign led by ______.

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

In ____ , the Supreme Court ruled that Indian tribes were not sovereign nations, but also that tribes were entitled to their ancestral lands and could not be forced to move from them.

The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced removal of this tribe from Georgia to Oklahoma.

Mexican American farm workers in California organized ____ to demand higher pay form their employers.

In 1994, California voters passed Proposition ___ that sought to deny non-emergency health services, food stamps, welfare, and Medicaid to undocumented immigrants.

In 1944, the Supreme Court determined that the actions of the government under Executive Order 9066, which removed 110,000+ Japanese and Japanese Americans from their communities, were

The _____ was one of the first groups to champion the rights of gay men.

The "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in the U.S. military ended in

The 1927 case of ____ upheld the right of state governments to sterilize those people considered "feeble minded" by the standards of the time, without their will or consent.

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because ________.

The Fourteenth Amendment was critically important for civil liberties because it ________.

Which of the following types of discrimination would be subject to the rational basis test?

The Supreme Court decision ruling that “separate but equal” was constitutional and allowed racial segregation to take place was ________.

The 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march was an important milestone in the civil rights movement because it ________.

At the world’s first women’s rights convention in 1848, the most contentious issue proved to be _________.

  

Which of the following best describes attitudes toward Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

The doctrine that people who do jobs that require the same level of skill, training, or education are thus entitled to equal pay is known as ________.

How did NAWSA differ from the NWP?