Florida Civic Literacy Test Questions Part 5

▪1954 case that overturned Separate but Equal standard of discrimination in education, ▪Her family believed that the segregated school system violated the 14th Amendment and took their case to court.

▪The case that ruled that slaves were property and could not sue, ▪Violated the 5th amendment, ▪helped bring on the civil war

▪Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government

▪a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys.

▪School newspapers can be censored by teachers and administrators, ▪The journalism students felt that this censorship was a direct violation of their First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court decided that Principal Reynolds had the right to such editorial decisions, as he had 'legitimate pedagogical concerns.'

▪1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 2 each survivor, ▪Korematsu argued that Executive Order 9066 was unconstitutional and that it violated the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendmentwas selected over the Fourteenth Amendment due to the lack of federal protections in the Fourteenth Amendment. He was arrested and convicted.

▪Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court), ▪Violation of the 4th amendment

▪This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review

▪Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law

▪Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police, ▪Violated the 5th amendment and his 6th, right to an attorney, ▪Case topic: self-incrimination, due process

▪students may be searched without a warrant if there is 'reasonable ground' for doing so, ▪argued her 4th amendment rights, ▪Case topic: Student search and seizure

▪'separate but equal' doctrine supreme court upheld the constitutionally of jim crow laws, ▪argued in court that the Act violated the 13th and 14th Amendments

▪A 1978 Supreme Court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race, ▪Violated the 14th amendment

▪(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy, ▪violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy implicitly guaranteed in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and 14th Amendments

▪A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.

▪Students have the right to symbolic speech at school as long as it is not disruptive, protected but he 1st amendment

▪U.S. Supreme Court case that limited executive privilege