civil liberties quiz

Civil liberties

Specific individual eights that are institutionally protected against government infringement, speech, press, self incrimination etc

Lemon v Kurtzman

Court struck down a state program that would’ve helped pay salaries of teachers hired by parochial schools to give instruction in secular subjects

Engel v vitale

Court rules that establishment clause prohibit its reciting prayers in public schools

Near v Minnesota

Court rules that the government can’t censor or prohibit a publication in advance (prior restraint is forbidden)

Ex post facto law

Declares an action to be criminal after it has been performed

Miranda v wainwright

Statements concerning rights that police are required to make to a person before they are subjected to in custody questioning

Exclusionary rule

Judicial rule that states that evidence obtained in an illegal search and seizure cannot be used in trial

Mapp v Ohio

Court rule that all evidence obtained illegally was inadmissible in a state court

Roe v wade

Court rules as unconstitutional a Texas law making it a crime to obtain an abortion except to save the mothers life