Civil Rights Landmark Supreme Court Decisions Civil Liberties Inferior Courts
100
What are immigrants?
These are aliens legally admitted as permanent residents.
100
What is kidnapping and rape?
It was the crime that Ernesto Miranda was initially arrested for.
100
What are the Bill of Rights?
These were ratified by the states and became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791.
100
What is a precinct?
This is the smallest unit of election administrations.
100
What is Congress?
They are in charge of the Inferior Courts.
200
What is a refugee?
This is a person who has come to American and is seeking protection from war, persecution or some other danger.
200
What is Plessy versus Ferguson?
The case that allowed for separate but equal facilities in railroad coaches.
200
What is the 1st amendment?
This guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or she chooses to believe in matters of religion.
200
What is a defendant?
It is the person who the complaint is made to in a court of law.
200
What is constitutional and federal?
These are the two types of federal courts.
300
What is de jure segregation?
This is segregation authorized by law.
300
What is Brown versus the Board of Education?
The 1954v case that ended segregation in public education.
300
What is Roe Versus Wade?
This court case involved the Supreme Court and struck down a Texas law that made abortion a crime except when necessary to save the life of the mother.
300
What is heterogenis?
This term is compounded of two Greek words, which mean race, family, or kind.
300
What are constitutional courts?
This court can also be called regular courts or article III courts.
400
What is denaturalization?
The process by which an alien that had become a citizen involuntarily loses their citizenship.
400
What is Executive Privilege?
This authority was first recognized by the Supreme Court in the historic case US versus Nixon in 1974.
400
What is the alien and sedition act?
These acts gave the president the power to deport undesirable aliens and made any false, slanderous, malicious criticism of the government a crime.
400
What is sales tax?
This is a tax placed on various commodities; the purchaser pays it.
400
What are special courts?
These courts can also be called legislative courts.
500
What is 14th amendment?
This amendment is called the 'due process' clause. Also sometimes referred to as the equal protection clause.
500
What is Gideon versus Wainwright?
In this court case, the Court held that an attorney must be furnished to a defendant who cannot afford one.
500
What is the Lemon Test?
It is the method by which the courts decide whether state aid to parochial schools is constitutional.
500
Who is Barack H. Obama?
Who will be the the President in 2016?
500
What is jurisdiction?
This is the authority of the court to hear a case.






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