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2. Federal Courts, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights 2.1 Structure and Processes of the Judicial System 2.2 The Development of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties by Judicial Implementation 2.3 The Bill of Rights 2.4 Incorporation of the


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  • 2. Federal Courts, Civil Liberties,

and Civil Rights

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2.1 Structure and Processes of the Judicial System 2.2 The Development

  • f Civil Rights and

Civil Liberties by Judicial Implementation

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2.3 The Bill of Rights
 2.4 Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
 2.5 Equal Protection and Due Process

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2.1. Structure and Processes of the Judicial System

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2.1.1 The Supreme Court
 2.1.2 Judicial Implementation and the Lower Federal Courts

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2.1.1. The Supreme Court

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The Marshall Court
 
 Marbury v. Madison
 
 Fletcher v. Peck
 
 Dartmouth College v. Woodward

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Both Conservatives and the public like the idea of an independent judiciary The number of Supreme Court Justices has become part of the informal Constitution

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Plaintiff Defendants Original jurisdiction Appellate jurisdiction

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Writ of Certiorari
 
 4/9 Justices must agree to hear the case = rule of four

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Types of Decisions:
 
 Unanimous
 Majority
 Concurring
 Dissenting

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2.1.2. Judicial Implementation and the Lower Federal Courts

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MODULE 2.5: Equal Protection and Due Process

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 


  • Manages Supreme

Court


  • Presides over federal

court system


  • Judicial Conference =

sets agenda

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Appellate Courts 


  • United States Court of

Appeals


  • 13 federal = U.S. Circuit

Court of Appeals


  • No evidence

  • Recourse = Supreme

Court

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2.2. The Development of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties by Judicial Implementation

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MODULE 2.5: Equal Protection and Due Process

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas …


  • a landmark case that
  • verturned


 Plessy v. Ferguson

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 “One person one vote”
 
 Baker v. Carr
 
 Reynolds v. Sims
 
 Evenwel v. Abbott
 
 


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Civil liberties = 
 Negative rights
 Right to privacy 
 Griswold v. Connecticut

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More right to privacy decisions:
 
 Bowers v. Hardwick
 Lawrence v. Texas
 Obergefell v. Hodges

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Judicial activism Judicial restraint

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2.3. The Bill of Rights

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Bill of Rights ratified in December 1791 2 Amendments not ratified Bill of Rights applies to the Federal Government but does not bind the state governments

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2.4. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

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1st Amendment
 Freedom of Religion
 Lemon v. Kurtzman
 Lynch v. Donnelly
 Agnostini v. Felton
 Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

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1st Amendment
 Freedom of Expression
 Schenk v. U.S.

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1st Amendment
 
 Freedom of Speech
 Brandenburg v. Ohio
 Freedom of the Press

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2.5. Equal Protection and Due Process

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 4th-8th Amendments: 
 
 Limit police power of states 
 &
 Guarantee right to fair legal & judicial proceedings

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Supreme Court
 affirms rights inherent 
 in 4th-8th Amendments:


Mapp v. Ohio =

exclusionary rule
 Gideon V. Wainwright
 Escobedo v. Illinois
 Miranda v. Arizona

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6th Amendment = 
 right to criminal trial 


7th Amendment = 


right to civil trial 


8th Amendment = 


no excessive bail, no unusual punishments

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Equal protection 
 4th-8th Amendments: 
 Amounts to equal protection
 But equal protection 
 Not explicit until 
 14th Amendment

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“Due Process”
 
 5th


14th



 
 


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 9th Amendment:
 
 just because some 
 rights are listed, 
 doesn’t mean others 
 are denied

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10th Amendment:
 Powers not delegated to the 
 federal government
 states
 (where the federal government does not 
 exercise power, the states may do so)