Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Review
Activity #1: Civil Liberties
Answer the following questions in your notebook...
1. How does the Bill of Rights protect citizens and states from an overpowering national government? Hint: Recall the reason that these 10 amendments were added to the US Constitution in the first place.....cough...cough...Antifederalists....cough.....
2. What limitations are there on our freedom of speech and religion? Hint: Think setting.
3. Why are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th considered the "rights of the accused"? Hint: Think like someone wrongfully accused.
4. In what ways is the 2nd amendment different than the other civil liberties expressed in the Bill of Rights? Hint: "infringed"
2. What limitations are there on our freedom of speech and religion? Hint: Think setting.
3. Why are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th considered the "rights of the accused"? Hint: Think like someone wrongfully accused.
4. In what ways is the 2nd amendment different than the other civil liberties expressed in the Bill of Rights? Hint: "infringed"
Activity #2: Civil Rights
1. Why did the court reverse the Plessy v Ferguson (1896) separate but equal doctrine the case of Brown v Board of Education (1954)? Hint: It is "inherently unequal"
2. Under what power granted to them under the US Constitution did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What were the limits? Hint: "Public Accommodation"
3. The 24th Amendment abolished the poll tax. Why were these taxes, and literacy tests, seen as a deliberate attempt to limit minority voting? Hint: Look at the states that had poll taxes.
