Civics civil liberties

Supreme Court case where students wore black armbands to school

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Bethel v. Fraser
• Morse v. Frederick 

This case advocated free speech in the schools in the form of an anti-war protest

• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Gideon vs. Wainwright
• Mapp vs. Ohio

What are civil liberties?

• make up the unwritten Constitution
• the rights to vote and participate in the political process
• laws that provide and set limits on one's freedoms
• individual legal and constitutional protections against the government

The establishment clause of the First Amendment

• prohibits government from sponsoring or supporting religious activity.
• establishes Protestantism as the official religion of the United States.
• prevents the government from interfering with the exercise of free speech.
• forbids the establishment of restrictions of free speech.

Whereas civil rights may be defined as what the government must provide its citizens, civil liberties may be defined as what the government

• must do to its citizens.
• cannot deny its citizens.
• can do to its citizens.
• can take away from its citizens.

This amendment gave citizens the right to bear arms and maintain a well-regulated militia. 

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 9th

This amendment gives states the powers that the federal government does not identify in the Constitution. It eliminated the fears by the anti-federalists of an all too powerful government. 

• 1st
• 14th
• 10th
• 9th

This amendment defines citizenship and gives people "equal protection under the law."

• 10th
• 17th
• 14th
• 24th

This amendment was made because the British made the colonists house (quarter) British soldiers during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. 

• 10th
• 3rd
• 2nd
• 1st

The writ of habeas corpus is intended to prevent 

• A prisoner from being tried for the same crime twice
• The accused from being brought before a judge
• The accused from being unjustly arrested and imprisoned without cause
• Defendants from being a lawyer