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NAME __________ PERIOD _____ DATE _____

Crash Course “Civil Rights & Liberties: Crash Course Government &

Politics #23

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbwsF-A2sTg

1) ______ are limitations placed on the government. They are things the government can't do that

might interfere with your personal freedom.

2) ______ are curbs on the power of majorities to make decisions that would benefit some at the

expense of others. Basically, civil rights are guarantees of equal citizenship, and they mean that

citizens are protected from discrimination by majorities.

3) Same sex marriage is a ______ issue because in the states that don't allow it, the ______ of voters

is denying something to a minority, creating inequality in the way that the laws work.

4) ______ liberties are limits on what the government can do. For example, the first amendment

says that congress shall make no law establishing religion. This means that they cannot create a

national church or declare that Christianity or Islam or Hinduism is the official religion of the US.

5) ______ liberties are limits on how the government can act. For example, in America in courtroom

dramas, there is a presumption that someone is innocent until proven guilty. This presumption
means that in criminal cases, juries and judges have to act as though the accused is innocent until

the prosecution convinces them otherwise.

6) The ______ amendment, for example, says that "congress shall make no law respecting the

establishment of religion, or abridging the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of

speech or of the press to assemble or to infringe the right to petition the government for redress of

grievances."

7) In a case that you've probably never heard of, called ______, decided in 1833, the court said that

the Bill of Rights applied to the national, meaning federal government, not to the states.

8) The ______ amendment and the Supreme Court happened. After the Civil War, as part of the

reconstruction, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the constitution. Of these, the

14th is the most important, probably the most important of all amendments.

9) This is a concept called ______, and it supposedly reserves more power to the states. What it

really means is that when the people thought that the states were violating liberties, they had to go

to the Supreme Court, which by now has incorporated almost every clause in the Bill of Rights

against the states.

10) By now, almost all the rights and liberties mentioned in the first ten Amendments have been

incorporated against the states. This means that ______ are protected from all their governments

taking away their liberties, and that's a good thing.

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