which of the following is a check the legislature has on the executive branch? a.can override vetoes...
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Which of the following is a check the legislature has on the executive branch?a. Can override vetoes
and impeach the president
b. Can declare presidential actions unconstitutional
c. Can appoint judges
Which of the following are checks that the judicial branch has on the legislature?a. Can impeach judges
or reject appointment of judges
b. Can impeach the president
c. Can declare acts of legislature unconstitutional
Warm-up 2/15/2012
What is an example of an Expressed power?
What is an example of a reserved power? What is an example of a concurrent
power?
Warm-up 2/15/2012
Unit 3 Part II The Amendments to the US Constitution
The ability to change in order to adapt to a changing world
What does “Constitutional Flexibility” mean?
Offers a method of changing the Constitution to apply to new ways of thinking
How does the Amendment process create “constitutional flexibility”?
The Bill of Rights
The First 10 Amendments
ReligionAssemblyPetitionPressSpeech
Amendment 1
2nd Amendment
Right to Bear Arms
Amendment 2
75cent Amendment
No Quartering of Troops
Amendment 3
Need a warrant 4 search and seizure
4th Amendment
Rights of the Accused
5th Amendment
Everyone is entitled to the same treatment under the law
Due Process
Cannot be madeto testify against yourself
Self-Incrimination
A grand jury must determine if there is enough evidence to indict (to charge)
Grand Jury
Government can take your property for the publics best interest butmust pay a fair price forit.
Eminent Domain
You cannot be charged with the same crime twice
Double Jeopardy
Right to a speedy, fair trial Right to a lawyer. Right to a jury trial Right to confront witnesses against you Right to bring your own witnesses
6th Amendment
7 suits for lawyers suing If sued for more than $20 can ask to have a
jury trial.
7th Amendment
No cruel and unusual punishment No excessive bail
8th Amendment
Right reserved to the people
9th Amendment
Rights reserved to the states
10th Amendment
1791
When were the Bill of Rights ratified?
The freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment.
What are civil liberties?
“Government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”
What does the “free exercise clause” allow for in the United States?
Landmark case in Establishing the right to a free press
John Peter Zenger1733
A wide variety of ideas and viewpoints
What does a free press expose the American people to?
Banning films or printed materials because of offensive or alarming ideas.
What does censorship refer to?
Media cannot be used to harm someone’s reputation
Media can be limited for national security purposes
Laws prohibit printing of obscene materials
In what ways can the government regulate the mass media?
1st Amendments right to assemble
What amendment allows people to join groups?
Libel – cannot print lies about someone Slander – speaking lies about someone Rights of the Community – rights of one
can sometimes be limited if conflict with the rights of the community
Limits on personal freedoms
The right to vote
Suffrage
Highlight the amendments that increase the right to suffrage.
15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th
Suffrage Amendments
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
Civil Rights Movement
The fight for equal treatment under the law for Americans
1950’s and 1960’s
Decades of the Civil Rights
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
Discrimination
Laws requiring African Americans and Whites to be separated in most public places
“Jim Crow” Laws
Segregation
The separation of the races
Determined segregation was constitutional Established the principle of “separate but
equal”
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Overturned Plessy v Ferguson Segregation in public schools inherently
unequal
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Banned discrimination based on race, gender, religion, and national origin in public facilities, employment, education, and voter registration.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
All citizens have opportunity to vote, regardless of race
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Programs that encouraged the hiring and admitting of minorities and women to programs traditionally closed to them.
Affirmative Action Programs
Being singled out as suspects because of the way they look.
Racial Profiling