Civil Right Acts

WILSON ESPIONAGE ACT 1977

The Charities Aid Foundation

Quakers American Friends Service Committee


Incorporation Doctrine  Power of Federal Judges

13th Amendment after the Civil War Emancipated Slaves, allowing the rights to freedom from slavery in America.

Civil Rights Act of 1860 Congress passed the

14th Amendment     Right to due process of a fair trail by the law, and immunities of equality of the
                                 government, no exposto facto, bill of attainder and the right to writ of Habeas
                                 Corpus.

15th Amendment:   The Right to Vote

19th Amendment 1920 Women voting and Suffrage

21st Amendment Voting

23rd 1961 Gave District of Columbia electoral vote in the Presidential election.

24th 1964 Amendment Prohibit tax in federal election polls

26th Amendment 1971 Voting 18 years old

Everson v. Board of Education
Engel v. Viteue 1962
Abot School District v. Schempp 1963

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Lee v. Weismean 1992

District v. Doe 2000


Free to Exercise religion

Reynold v. U.S 1874 Polygamy

1963 Florida banned Animal Sacrifices during
         religious ceremony to the Amish School Attendence

Social Freedom Religious Restoration Act 1993



Freed of Speech under 1st Amendment: Protected speech vs.
 Unprotected Speech by Clear and present dense test- doctrine
prom by Supreme Court

Schenk v. United States 

Gitlowv v. New York 1975

Direct Inciutment Doctrine

Alien Reistration Act 1940

Smith act 1948

Dennis v.  United Sates 6-2 vote

Yates v. United States 1957

Brandenburg v. Ohio 1969

Tinker v. Des MOnies School District

Texas v. Johis 1987

Flag Protection Act 1987

Virginia v. Black

United States v. Obrien 1968

New York Times v. Sullivan  Slander by actual malice

Abortion rights

Doe v. Bolton

Webster v. Reproduction

Planned Parenthood v. Casey Parent sign Abortion, notify spouse


2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act

Gonzalez v. Cohort

2007 Born Alive Infant Protection Act

Bowers v. Hardwick 

Obscenity Miller v. California

Child Pornography Prevention act 1996
Child Online Protection Act 1998


10th Amendment: Right reserve to states and people


Jim Crow Laws

South 1870'2 1780's that amdates the segragation of the races

Ritherford B. HAyzes 1877

Literacy Doctrine,  if you read well enough you could vote.

Black Codes; laws passed by maon of the Sourthern States ofteh civil war to restrict Black and White

Grandfather Clause- Passed in the south in the late Nineteenth Century that exempted literacy test 15th Amendment allowed vote if ancestors could vote

Plessy v. Fergeson   Seperate but Equal

Eisenhower of 1960 Crime Act increase state power to vote

Voting rights act 1991

Congress Civil Rights Act 1965 Martin Jr. Assasination

Voting Rights Act 1982 25 Year extension 


Affirmative Action

Aderand v. Kena

Civil Rights Act 1991 for hiring standards

Ricci v. DeStefano

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Act

Married Womens Property Act 1839-95Ps