Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Civil Liberties are?

• unwritten but widely agreed upon

• rights to vote and participate in American democracy

• laws that provide and set limits on ones freedoms

• individual legal and constitutional protections against the government

American civil liberties are found in the?

• Preamble

• Declaration of Independence

• Statute of Religious Freedom

• Bill of Rights

The free exercise of the 1st Amendment clause holds that people have the right to?

• practice religion as they choose

• express themselves through speech as they choose

• evade taxes if they can run fast

• donate money to any political campaign they choose

This is your right to fair and equal treatment (usually in reference to the judicial system).

• right to privacy

• free speech

• suffrage

• due process

Which clause prevents the national government from sanctioning an official religion?

• Establishment

• free exercise

• full faith and credit

• equal protection

This civil liberty prevents a law or laws from being written against an individual or group.

• Bills of attainder

• Habeas corpus

• Ex post facto laws

• None of the above

Which amendment prohibits double jeopardy and self-incrimination?

• 5th

• 6th

• 8th

• 1st

A person has the right to an attorney was established in this case if they cannot afford an attorney

• Miranda v. Arizona
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Morse v. Frederick
• Tinker v. Des Moines

Establishes the Incorporation Doctrine through the application of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the Bill of Rights.

• Schenck v. United States
• Gitlow v. New York
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Texas v. Johnson

Which amendment protects citizens from unfair treatment by the state and local governments?

• First

• Fifth

• Fourteenth

• Fifteenth