Pew Lecture Notes: Civil Liberties/Civil Rights
1. Explain how Voting Rights Act of 1965 as legislation is a source of protection of civil rights.
2. Explain how Brown v. Board and Roe v. Wade as court decisions are sources of protection of civil rights/civil liberties.
3. Explain “modifying effect” of the Fourteenth Amendment in #1 below:
4. To what does the “total” incorporation view apply?
5. To what does the “selective” incorporation view apply?
6. Why do you think Amendment 10 hasn’t been nationalized in reference to the 14th Amendment?
7. Provide brief details about Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965. How does it relate to the right to privacy?
8. What is the basic meaning of the Establishment Clause?
9. How do the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause potentially clash?
10. What is the “Clear and Present Danger” doctrine?
11. Under what condition can speech be suppressed?
12. How is symbolic speech “generally protected?”
13. What did the Freedom of Information Act (1966) allow citizens access to?
14. As part of the “second feminist wave” what do you suppose the Equal Pay Act did?
15. What did Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
16. What did Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
17. What was Roe v. Wade of 1973?
18. Why was 1992 declared the “Year of the Woman?”
19. What did the Dred Scott Decision of 1857 declare?
20. Who did the Amendments 13 through 15 specifically protect?
21. What was one form of protection against de jure segregation for blacks?
22. What was a major outcome of the decision Lau v. Nichols, 1974?
23. How was Roe v. Wade linked to Griswold v. Connecticut?
24. What law banned literacy tests?
25. What were the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
26. What does Title II of the Civil Rights Act ban? What is the act based upon?
27. In terms of “due process” of law, how is the procedure established?
28. What is the Exclusionary rule?
29. What do critics say about the Exclusionary rule?
30. What are a couple of safeguards to police questioning?
31. Explain “habeas corpus.”
32. Explain two key cases related to the right to counsel.
33. What are the provisions related to the right to a speedy trial?
34. How are most right to trial cases disposed?