Can you name the Important Constitutional Law Cases?

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Clear and Present Danger test begun
Taxpayer/hospital: 'A law respecting a religious establishment' is not necessarily a 'law establishing religion.'
Clear and Present Danger test applied -- no government overthrow
State must provide unemployment compensation to a person objecting to work at a weapons plant under the Free Exercise Clause
Purpose/primary effect test -- school prayer
Double Jeopardy protections NOT fundamental to ordered liberty
Free Exercise Clause permits outlawing peyote and denying unemployment to people fired for its use as the Oregon law was a “neutral law of general applicability”
Strict Scrutiny in unemployment claims -- began a new test
Grand Jury NOT fundamental to ordered liberty
Amish people don't have to go to school after 8th grade
The Espionage Act doesn't unduly restrict speech
Conscientious objection on 'sincerely held moral beliefs' OK
The state can’t furnish you textbooks that aren’t secular in nature
Religious Freedom Reformation Act exceeded congress’s power
Oregon Compulsory School Act unconstitutional
State has compelling interest to take care of kids OVER religious freedom
Incorporated Free Speech Clause
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You can spout off racist epithets and be protected by the constitution
You can't burn your draft card
Amdmt 1 only protects religious beliefs, not the actions thereto that run afoul of already established laws
But you can definitely burn a flag
State governments not bound by eminent domain guarantees in Amdmt 5
Belief-Action test begun
Clergy in public school graduation not OK
Can use public funds to transport kids to private (religious) schools -- nothing ideological about a bus
Began Strict Scrutiny test for statutes -- milk regulations
The Smith Act violates the First Amendment -- more commies
Combined Schemp and Walz prongs for its famous 'test'
Incorporated Free Exercise Clause
Jehovah's witnesses and their record player -- Valid Secular Policy test
Free Exercise Clause does not permit wearing of religious apparel in military
Ten Commandments is OK as monument
Tax exemption for churches -- “Excessive government entanglement” test begun
VSP for Sunday as day of rest
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Important Constitutional Law Cases Quiz

  1. by meredithw20
  • Created May 5, 2010 in History
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