Study Guide – Unit 5: What Rights Does the Bill of Rights Protect?

 

Date Due

Assignment

Mon., Oct. 28

1. Read Lesson 29, p. 154 – 159

2. Answer RUL questions 1 – 6  on p. 159

Tues., Oct. 29

1. Hand in your information on which of the Election Projects for Component B you have chosen to do and what progress you have made so far.

2. Read the Critical Thinking Exercise on p. 158 – 159

3. Write out answers (two – three sentences apiece) for questions 1 – 3 on p. 159

Weds., Oct. 30

1. Read Lesson 30, p. 160 – 164

2. Answer the RUL questions 1 – 6 on p. 164

Thurs., Oct 31

1. Find another election article and write up your reflection

2. Read the handout on New York Times Co.  v. U.S. (1971)

3. Answer questions 1 – 3 on the handout

Fri., Nov. 1

1. Read Lesson 31 p. 165 – 169

2. Answer RUL questions 1 – 4

Mon., Nov. 4

Quiz on the First Amendment

Tues., Nov. 5

Election Project Due

Weds., Nov. 6

1. Watch the election returns on TV Tuesday night and/or read the results in the newspaper Wednesday morning.  Take notes on what the newscasters say about the election in both North Carolina and throughout the country.  Which party will control the Senate and House of Representatives as a result of the election?  Who were the big winners and losers?  What were the results for North Carolina?

2. Read Lesson 32, p. 170 – 174

3. Answer RUL questions 1 – 6

Thurs., Nov. 7

1. Read Lesson 33, p. 175 – 181

2. Answer the RUL questions 1 – 5 on p. 181

Fri., Nov. 8

1. Read Lesson 34, p. 182 – 187

2. Answer RUL questions 1 – 5

Tues., Nov. 12

1. Read Handout on capital punishment

2. Type up a one-page (double-spaced) reflection on the death penalty answering questions four and five

Weds. Nov. 13

Review Worksheet

Thurs., Nov. 14

Test on Unit Five

 

Identifications

 

1.

Established church

17.

Right to assemble

33.

“Fruit of the poison tree”

2.

Separation of church and state

18.

Right to petition

34.

Self-incrimination

3.

Religious tests

19.

Right of petition

35.

Indicted

4.

Establishment clause

20.

“Gag rule”

36.

Acquitted

5.

Free exercise clause

21.

Equal Access

37.

Double Jeopardy

6.

Compelling state interest

22.

Public Forum

38.

Speedy trial

7.

Lemon Test

23.

Substantive due process

39.

Public Trial

8.

Libel and Seditious Libel

24.

Procedural due process

40.

Impartial jury

9.

Sedition Act

25.

Perjury

41.

Confronting witnesses

10.

John Peter Zenger

26.

Adversary system

42.

Right to counsel

11.

“Clear and present danger”

28.

Inquisitorial system

43.

Bail

12.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

29.

General Warrants

44.

“Cruel and unusual punishment”

13.

Symbolic speech

30.

Right to privacy

45.

Capital punishment

14.

Prior Restraint

31.

Probable cause

46.

Corporal punishment

15.

Pentagon Papers

32.

Exclusionary Rule

47.

Unguided discretion

16.

Per curiam decision

 

 

48.

Guided discretion

 

 

Supreme Court Cases

 

We will be discussing the following Supreme Court cases in class.  You are responsible for knowing what the main issue was in each case and what the decision was.  The ones with a * by them are the ones which you must learn the name of the case and be able to match it with the information.

Freedom of Religion

1.

*Everson v. Board of Education (1942)

2.

*Engel v. Vitale (1962)

3.

*Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

4.

Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)

5.

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)

Freedom of Speech and Press

6.

*Schenk v. United States (1919)

7.

*Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

8.

Texas v. Johnson (1989)

9.

Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)

10.

*New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)

11.

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

Freedom of Assembly and Petition

12.

NAACP v. Alabama (1958)

13.

Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)

Due Process and the Rights of the Accused

14.

In re Gault (1967)

15.

Goss v. Lopez (1975)

16.

Weeks v. United States (1914)

17.

*Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

18.

New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)

19.

Vernonia School District v. Acton  (1995)

20.

Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawtomie County v. Earls (2002)

21.

Commonwealth v. Dillon (1791)

22.

Fulminante v. Arizona (1991)

23.

*Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

24.

New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)

25.

*Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

26.

*Furman v. Georgia (1972)

27.

*Gregg v. Georgia

28.

Ingraham v. Wright (1977)