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Flashcards by runner1325, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 14th Amendment | Civil war amendment, defined us citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the laws" |
| De jure segregation | segregation established by law. EX: Plessy v. Ferguson |
| De facto segregation | Latin phrase that means by fact. Segregation that occurred NOT by law but the result of tradition. |
| Jim crow laws | segregation laws in the south |
| Original segregation | 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 views of the majority of the Supreme Court justices regarding a case |
| Dissenting Opinion | A Statement written by a Supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting his/her 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 processes of Law | means fair and equal treatment in a court of law. (5th and 14th amendments) |
| Reverend J.A. Delaine | a Methodist minister and civil rights leader from Clarendon County, South Carolina. Worked on the (Briggs v. Elliot Case) |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | A black man that who filed a suit against the School Board in Clarendon County, South Carolina |
| Thurgood Marshall | He was an associate justice for the U.S Supreme Court and he was the first african american to do so. |
| John W. Davis | He was an American Politician,diplomat and lawyer of West Virginia |
| Earl Warren | He was an American jurist and politician and was the 14th Chief justice of the United States |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | (1857) case of a slave named Dred Scott. The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, and had no rights under the constitution. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | (1896) cas about Homer Plessy, a black man, who purchased a ticket to ride in the whites only railroad car in Louisiana. Case established "separate but equal" doctrine |
| Brown v. Board of Education | (1954) banned segregation in public schools |
| Briggs v. Elliot | (1954) case that challenged segregated schools in Clarendon County, South Carolina |
| Korematsu v. United States | (1944) During WWll Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast were moved to internment camps. Supreme Court upheld the President's authority to do this. This case is an example of the President's power to issue an executive order, checks and balances, and judicial review. |
| University of California v. Bakke | (1978) Supreme Court case on affirmative action. It bars use of racial quota systems in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are constitutional. |
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