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Flashcards by Fernando Carranz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fernando Carranz
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 14th Amendment | one of the civil war amendments ; define US citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the law " . |
| De Jure Segregation | segregation established by law . |
| De Facto Segregation | latin phrase that means "by the fact " . segregation that occurred by law but as a result of tradition |
| Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws in the south |
| Original Jurisdiction | authority of a court to hear a case for the first time |
| Appellate Jurisdiction | the authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower court |
| Legal Brief | a written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case |
| Majority Opinion | a statement that presents the view of the majority of the supreme court justices regarding a case |
| Dissenting Opinion | a statement written by a supreme court justice who disagree with the majority opinion , presenting his or her own opinion . |
| Stare Decisis | principle followed by judges and the supreme court : a latin term that means "let yesterday's decision stand |
| Precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later , similar case . |
| Due Process of Laws | fair and equal treatment in a court of law , 5th and 14th amendments mention due process of laws |
| Dred Scott V. Sanford | the supreme court ruled that enslaved african americans were property , not citizens ,and had no rights under the constitution . |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | A black man who purchased a ticked ride in the whites only railroad car in louisiana |
| Brown V. Board of Education Of Topeka , Kansas | banned segregation in public school |
| Briggs V. Elliot | cause that challenged segregated schools in caledon county south carolina |
| Korematsu V. United States | during WW2 japanese american citizens living on the west coast were moved into the internment camps . supreme court upheald the presidents authority to do this . |
| University of California V. Bakke | supreme court case an affirmative action . it bars use of racial quota system |
| Reverend J.A Delain | a local pastor / teacher . and in 1947 he sued south carolina's government |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | he attends to school and have to walk a 5 miles to get to school |
| Thurgood Marshall | attorney for the the black parents in the south against the segregated schools |
| John W. Davis | lawyer who represented south carolina side: he was arguing for the segregation laws in south carolina |
| Chief Justice Earl Warren | chief justice of the supreme court in the briggs v. Elliot & brown vs. board of education , who was personally against segregated schools |
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