UNIT III: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights (Chapters 4-5)Suggested steps for reviewing this unit:
Required Foundational Documents for this unit:
The Constitution of the United States (including the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments) Document: http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Document: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf Summary: https://www.enotes.com/topics/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail Review Video: Click to Play Required Supreme Court Cases for this Unit:
Schenck v. United States (1919) Speech creating a “clear and present danger” to national security or public safety is not protected by the First Amendment Review Video: Click to view Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Race-based school segregation violates the equal protection clause. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson Review Video: Click to view Baker v. Carr (1961) Opened the door to equal protection challenges to redistricting and the development of the “one person, one vote” doctrine by ruling that challenges to redistricting did not raise “political questions” that would keep federal courts from reviewing such challenges Review Video: Click to view Engel v. Vitale (1962) School sponsored prayer and bible readings violates the establishment clause Review Video: Click to view Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent (and subsequently everyone) in a state felony case (Incorporation) Review Video: Click to view Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) Preemptively banning students from wearing black armbands in school to protest the Vietnam War was deemed unconstitutional Review Video: Click to view New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) Bolstered the freedom of the press, establishing a “heavy presumption against prior restraint” even in cases involving national security Review Video: Click to view Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Compelling Amish students to attend school past the eighth grade violates the free exercise clause Review Video: Click to view Roe v. Wade (1973) Extended the right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion and established the three trimester standard Review Video: Click to view Shaw v. Reno (1993) Majority minority districts, created under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, may be constitutionally challenged by voters if race is the only factor used in creating the district Review Video: Click to view United States v. Lopez (1995) Congress may not use the commerce clause to make possession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime Review Video: Click to view McDonald v. Chicago (2010) The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is applicable to the states. (Incorporation) Review Video: Click to view |