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Unit 2 Chapters 4, 5, 6 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Powerpoints: Your Civil Liberties Rights of the Accused Right to Privacy Civil Rights Key Terms: Civil liberties, civil rights, due process clause, Eighth Amendment, establishment clause, exclusionary rule, Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, free exercise clause, incorporation doctrine, clear and present danger test, libel, slander, prior restraint, probable cause, right to privacy, selfincrimination, writ of habeas corpus, Sixth Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, equal protection of the laws, Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, Fifteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment, Thirteenth Amendment, separate-but-equal doctrine, de jure segregation, de facto segregation, affirmative action, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Twenty-fourth Amendment Learning Objectives: Examine how decisions of the Supreme Court have extended specific provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states as part of the incorporation doctrine. Describe how the two constitutional statements about religion and government-the establishment clause and the free exercise clause-may sometimes create conflict. Establish why the Supreme Court will usually not permit prior restraint on speech and press. Understand the conflict that can occur between free speech and public order. Identify the two facets of freedom of assembly and explain how they may conflict with other societal values. Explain how provisions of the Bill of Rights have been used to extend basic rights to defendants of criminal trials. Ascertain how concepts such as a right to privacy can be inferred or implied from the Bill of Rights. Explain why civil liberties are seen as an individual’s protection against the government. Understand how civil rights have been used to extend more equality to groups that historically have been subject to discrimination. Identify provisions of the Bill of Rights that have implications for equality. Explain how the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” has been applied to the idea of equality. Explain how the Supreme Court provided a constitutional justification for segregation in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Summarize the reasoning of the Court in the 1954 case of Brown v Board of Education and how it changed its earlier precedent in Plessy v. Ferguson. Show the significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how it was attained. Determine the ways in which Americans with disabilities have become the successors to the civil rights movement. Evaluate the opposing positions of those who favor affirmative action and those who claim that these policies simply create reverse discrimination. Determine how civil rights laws increase the scope and power of government. Key Assignments: Political cartoon/Current event analysis: September 21st Chapter 4 (textbook); Article 17, 19, 21, 25, 27 (Woll reader) quiz deadline September 22nd Chapter 5 and 6 (textbook); Article 22, 23, 29(Woll reader) quiz deadline September 26th TEST UNIT II: Multiple Choice September 29th/Free Response September 30th Vocabulary Unit II Quiz September 28th (Don’t forget Book Reviews)