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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:
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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)