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Judges that will be on service at anytime to give you a warrant for your arrest |
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Define Exigent circumstances |
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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? |
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Civil Liberties groups & Law Enforcement Groups |
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Describe the Civil Liberties Group & their views of Exigent Circumstances |
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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 |
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They pressuerd the decision because law enforcement would not be hesistant to pursue the suspect |
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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? |
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What does the U.S.A. Patriot Act Stand for ? |
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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 |
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- 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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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) |
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(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) |
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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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The 14th amendment was ratified to enclude a do-process clause |
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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 |
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- 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 |
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Our government cannot favor one religon over another |
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Describe the law that was passed down by Alabama |
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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? |
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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? |
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- The length of time of how long they were there for
- People that paid, were in a non religous group
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Describe the Will of Separation |
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It states that the State must be separated from the church |
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Describe the Accomodation Doctorine |
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The government is allowed to accomodate all catholic schools of that state |
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What did our supreme court rule?(1990) |
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No university can prohibit any religious orginization on thier campous if it meets university criteria. |
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Describe the Free Exercise Clause |
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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? |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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Name the 3 execptions that the supreme court allows warrantless searches (3) |
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- )When the plolice set up a raod block
- )If your intoxicated in that state
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What does the 5th Amendment state (in TX) |
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- 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 |
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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? |
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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) |
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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
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What is a reasonable basis test? |
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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) |
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- 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 |
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classifying people based upon their race, assuming that discrimination is the main purpose |
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Describe the 1964 civil Rights Act |
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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 |
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Prohibitted all discrimination of housing
Could not refuse a sale or a rent for a house based upon race/religon
Also prohibited redlining activities
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Define Redlining Activities |
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When the banks will refuse to grant a morgage in a certain neighborhood |
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What did the civli rights act of (1968) not require employers to do? |
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Employers were not reqired to prove that their employment practices were not dirciminatory |
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Name two things that dealt with employemnt discrimination (2) |
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It had dealt with the cost
Felt like the person as an individual was discriminated of employment |
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Describe the term Affirmitive Action |
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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 |
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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 |
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It was introduced in 1961 by President Kennedy
-an executive order
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What were the two goals of the civil rights policies? |
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De jure-discrimination based upon actual law
De Facto-when disadavantage groups had fewer oppertunities
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Describe the Texas 10% Plan |
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An affirmitive action program, to get more minutes amongst African Americans to state univ. |
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