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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 26th amendment | amendment that moved voting minimum age to 18 years old. |
| 19th amendment | amendment that said nobody could be denied the right to vote due to their gender |
| New York Times v. US 1971 | established prior restraint doctrine |
| 14th amendment | repealed stance made in Barron v Baltimore decision |
| Barron v Baltimore | Bill of rights applied to federal government but not to the states |
| Individualism | self reliance, lack of support for government interventions |
| Liberalism | focus on individual rights and freedoms |
| Enumerated powers | the spending clause, commerce clause, and necessary and proper clause are examples of what? |
| Fundamental freedom clause | laws infringing on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and religion are to scrutinized by the courts more closely than others. |
| 14th amendment | repealed 3/5 compromise |
| Dual Sovereignty | Layer Cake federalism |
| Dual Sovereignty | A theory of federalism saying that both the national and state governments have final authority over their own policy domains |
| Prior Restraint Doctrine | gives individuals right to publish information without it being screened or reviewed before. |
| Marbury v. Madison | first case in which Supreme Court used judicial review to declare a state law unconstitutional |
| US v Lopez | limited what federal government count intervene with in terms of interstate commerce |
| 5th and 14th amendment | where is the due process clause found |
| 14th amendment | equal protection clause |
| 15th amendment | granted voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
| 13th amendment | outlaws slavery |
| 15th amendment | granted voting rights regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
| balance doctrine | balance freedom of speech with other competing public interests |
| due process clause | most important provision of the civil rights amendments |
| Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire | enunciated fighting words doctrine |
| Schenck v. US | enunciated clear and present danger doctrine |
| Dennis v. US | enunciated the balancing doctrine |
| Civil liberties | freedoms that that together preserve the rights of a free people |
| Civil rights | embody the general right to equal treatment under the law |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned segregation in all places of public accommodation, prohibited federal money from being used to support segregated programs, and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to guard against employment discrimination. |
| 17th amendment | instituted direct election of senators |
| 24th amendment | bans taxes on voting |
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