Unit VIII – Civil Rights and Liberties
1. Bill of Rights
2. civil liberties
3. civil rights
4. alien
5. Due Process Clause
6. Establishment Clause
7. parochial
8. Free Exercise Clause
9. libel
10. slander
11. sedition
12. seditious speech
13. prior restraint
14. shield law
15. symbolic speech
16. picketing
17. assemble
18. content neutral
19. right of association
1. due process
2. substantive due process
3. procedural due process
4. police power
5. search warrant
6. involuntary servitude
7. discrimination
8. writs of assistance
9. probable cause
10. exclusionary rule
11. writ of habeas corpus
12. bill of attainder
13. ex post facto law
14. grand jury
15. indictment
16. double jeopardy
17. bench trial
18. Miranda Rule
19. bail
20. preventative detention
21. capital punishment
22. treason
1. heterogeneous
2. immigrant
3. reservation
4. refugee
5. assimilation
6. segregation
7. Jim Crow law
8. separate-but-equal doctrine
9. integration
10. de jure segregation
11. de facto segregation
12. affirmative action
13. quota
14. reverse discrimination
15. citizen
16. jus soil
17. jus sanguinis
18. naturalization
19. alien
20. expatriation
21. denaturalization
22. deportation
Food for thought:
1. What is the difference between civil rights and civil liberties?
2. Explain the Establishment Clause. Explain the Free Exercise Clause.
3. Compare libel and slander.
4. Why does the government restrict seditious speech?
5. What does the right to assemble peacefully mean?
6. Explain what is meant by due process.
7. Explain probable cause.
8. What guarantees does the Fifth Amendment offer to the accused?
9. What is the Supreme Court’s view of capital punishment?
10. Who are immigrants?
11. What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws?
12. What is the purpose of affirmative action?
13. Describe the ways in which people can become citizens of the US. Describe the ways in which people can lose citizenship.