Which of the following is a check the legislature has on the executive branch?a. Can override vetoes

and impeach the president

b. Can declare presidential actions unconstitutional

c. Can appoint judges

Which of the following are checks that the judicial branch has on the legislature?a. Can impeach judges

or reject appointment of judges

b. Can impeach the president

c. Can declare acts of legislature unconstitutional

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What is an example of an Expressed power?

What is an example of a reserved power? What is an example of a concurrent

power?

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Unit 3 Part II The Amendments to the US Constitution

The ability to change in order to adapt to a changing world

What does “Constitutional Flexibility” mean?

Offers a method of changing the Constitution to apply to new ways of thinking

How does the Amendment process create “constitutional flexibility”?

The Bill of Rights

The First 10 Amendments

ReligionAssemblyPetitionPressSpeech

Amendment 1

2nd Amendment

Right to Bear Arms

Amendment 2

75cent Amendment

No Quartering of Troops

Amendment 3

Need a warrant 4 search and seizure

4th Amendment

Rights of the Accused

5th Amendment

Everyone is entitled to the same treatment under the law

Due Process

Cannot be madeto testify against yourself

Self-Incrimination

A grand jury must determine if there is enough evidence to indict (to charge)

Grand Jury

Government can take your property for the publics best interest butmust pay a fair price forit.

Eminent Domain

You cannot be charged with the same crime twice

Double Jeopardy

Right to a speedy, fair trial Right to a lawyer. Right to a jury trial Right to confront witnesses against you Right to bring your own witnesses

6th Amendment

7 suits for lawyers suing If sued for more than $20 can ask to have a

jury trial.

7th Amendment

No cruel and unusual punishment No excessive bail

8th Amendment

Right reserved to the people

9th Amendment

Rights reserved to the states

10th Amendment

1791

When were the Bill of Rights ratified?

The freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment.

What are civil liberties?

“Government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”

What does the “free exercise clause” allow for in the United States?

Landmark case in Establishing the right to a free press

John Peter Zenger1733

A wide variety of ideas and viewpoints

What does a free press expose the American people to?

Banning films or printed materials because of offensive or alarming ideas.

What does censorship refer to?

Media cannot be used to harm someone’s reputation

Media can be limited for national security purposes

Laws prohibit printing of obscene materials

In what ways can the government regulate the mass media?

1st Amendments right to assemble

What amendment allows people to join groups?

Libel – cannot print lies about someone Slander – speaking lies about someone Rights of the Community – rights of one

can sometimes be limited if conflict with the rights of the community

Limits on personal freedoms

The right to vote

Suffrage

Highlight the amendments that increase the right to suffrage.

15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th

Suffrage Amendments

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

Civil Rights Movement

The fight for equal treatment under the law for Americans

1950’s and 1960’s

Decades of the Civil Rights

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

Discrimination

Laws requiring African Americans and Whites to be separated in most public places

“Jim Crow” Laws

Segregation

The separation of the races

Determined segregation was constitutional Established the principle of “separate but

equal”

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

Overturned Plessy v Ferguson Segregation in public schools inherently

unequal

Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)

Banned discrimination based on race, gender, religion, and national origin in public facilities, employment, education, and voter registration.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

All citizens have opportunity to vote, regardless of race

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Programs that encouraged the hiring and admitting of minorities and women to programs traditionally closed to them.

Affirmative Action Programs

Being singled out as suspects because of the way they look.

Racial Profiling