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POLS 231 TEST (MON)(TODAY!)
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 2
04/21/2013

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Who are 24/7 Judges?
Definition
Judges that will be on service at anytime to give you a warrant for your arrest
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Define Exigent circumstances
Definition
Any reasonable action to believe that entry was necessary to prevent harm onto others
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Who were the two individual groups under Exigent circumstances?
Definition
Civil Liberties groups & Law Enforcement Groups
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Describe the Civil Liberties Group & their views of Exigent Circumstances
Definition
They felt the decision gave law enforcemnt any invitation to invade anyones property without a warrant
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Describe the Law Enfrocement Groups, & their views of Exigent Circumstances
Definition
They pressuerd the decision because law enforcement would not be hesistant to pursue the suspect
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Define Civil Liberties
Definition
Specefic individual rights that are constitutionally protected against the enfringement of goverenment
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What is the most debated amongst the civil liberties?
Definition
The Patriot Act
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What does the U.S.A. Patriot Act Stand for ?
Definition

U-Unifying

S-Standing

A-America

 

P-Providing

A-Appropriate

T-Tools

R-Requested

I-Intercept

O-Obsturuct

T-Terrorism

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Name 3 things that the Patriot act does
Definition
  • Allows for robing wire taps (the government has the right to tap for info)

 

  • Can search your business records (All info that you have)

 

  • Use survailence on lone wolves
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Define a Lone Wolf
Definition

A Person who is not part of a group, but is known as an individual terrorist

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Describe the case of Baltimore vs. Barron (1883)
Definition

(1833) the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution's Bill of Rights restricts only the powers of the federal government and not those of the state governments

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What does our Bill of Rights gauruntee?(4)
Definition
  • 1.)Our protection from the actions of the federal governmet
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  • 2.)The power(given initially)to the state governor to do as they will as an individual state
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  • 3.)Places all states under military rule to those states who were adopted by it
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  • 4.)The constitutional rights to free slaves
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What happened in 1868?
Definition

The 14th amendment was ratified to enclude a do-process clause

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What happened in 1925?
Definition

Our supreme court envolved the 14th amendment in a free speech case

(Gitlow vs. New York)

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Describe the case of Fiste vs. Kansas
Definition
  • Fiske beleived that the U.S industry should change
  • Found guilty of the act under trying to start an industrial revolution
  • The true beliefs and practices could not be approved
  • His act violated the 14th amendment, decision was reversed, not guilty
  • Decision was influenced by the due process clause (not enough proof) 
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Describe the Establishment Clause
Definition

Our government cannot favor one religon over another

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Describe the law that was passed down by Alabama
Definition

The state passed a law where all students could set aside 1 minute a day for meditation

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What did our supreme court do in the year 2000?
Definition

The court banned all organized lead prayer in all school events by students

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In the case of Van Orden vs. Rick Perry, what were the two different notes of opions that happened for both cases?

Definition
  1. The length of time of how long they were there for
  2. People that paid, were in a non religous group
Term
Describe the Will of Separation
Definition
It states that the State must be separated from the church
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Describe the Accomodation Doctorine
Definition

The government is allowed to accomodate all catholic schools of that state

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What did  our supreme court rule?(1990)
Definition

No university can prohibit any religious orginization on thier campous if it meets university criteria.

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Describe the Free Exercise Clause
Definition

it gives the person the freedom to exercise any belief choosen in this country

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What is the one acception to the Free Exercise Clause?
Definition

that person is free to practice any religion of choice, but not upon that persons beleif

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Describe the Procedure-or-Due-Process
Definition

Procedure that all authorities must follow before we the people can lawfully be punished for an offense

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What does Article 1 Section 9 of the Texas state constitution state?
Definition

It deals with the cases of the people

  • Law enforcement must bring that person to court
  • Must specify the reason why that person was being detained
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Describe the Plain view doctorine
Definition

the rule that a law enforcement officer may make a search and seizure without obtaining a search warrant if evidence of criminal activity or the product of a crime can be seen without entry or search

Term

Name the 3 execptions that the supreme court allows warrantless searches (3)

Definition
  1. )When the plolice set up a raod block
  2. )If your intoxicated in that state
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What does the 5th Amendment state (in TX)
Definition
  • All indivduals charged with a federal crime, must be indited by a grand jury
  • All states are not required to use grand juries
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Describe the Southern Manifesto
Definition

When all caucasion born whites urged all state goverenors to resist any force on immigration

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What did the governor of Arkansas do in 1971?
Definition

Called for the national guard to prevent all African American students from entering Little Rock Highschool

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What does the 14th amendment state (in TX)
Definition

The equal protection clause does not requier the our government to treat people evenly

 

Inequalities amongst groups of people are reasonable

 

Required a Reasonable basis test

 

 

Term

What is a reasonable basis test?

Definition

When the supreme court requires our goverment only to show our law is legal

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What does the 14th amendment not apply to? (3)
Definition
  • To anything that is racial or ethnic
  • Through the use of a strict security test
  • Proof for providing a compelling sesstion for a compelling law
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Describe Suspect classification

Definition

classifying people based upon their race, assuming that discrimination is the main purpose

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Describe the 1964 civil Rights Act
Definition

it gave federal government the right to end segregation in the South it prohibited segregation in public places

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Decribe teh civil rights act of 1968
Definition

Prohibitted all discrimination of housing

 

Could not refuse a sale or a rent for a house based upon race/religon

 

Also prohibited redlining activities

 

Term
Define Redlining Activities
Definition
When the banks will refuse to grant a morgage in a certain neighborhood
Term

What did the civli rights act of (1968) not require employers to do?

Definition

Employers were not reqired to prove that their employment practices were not dirciminatory

Term
Name two things that dealt with employemnt discrimination (2)
Definition

It had dealt with the cost

Felt like the person as an individual was discriminated of employment

Term
Describe the term Affirmitive Action
Definition
The goverments remedy for discrimination to provdie those who were discriminated of employment
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Who does the Affirmitive Action plan apply to

Definition

Only to organizations that receive federal funding or to a burden of proof

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What is the history behind the Affirmitive Action
Definition

It was introduced in 1961 by President Kennedy

-an executive order

 

 

Term

What were the two goals of the civil rights policies?

Definition

De jure-discrimination based upon actual law

De Facto-when disadavantage groups had fewer oppertunities

 

Term

Describe the Texas 10% Plan

Definition

An affirmitive action program, to get more minutes amongst African Americans to state univ.

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