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AG chapter 13
Question | Answer |
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Human Rights | Fundamental freedoms |
Bill of Rights | guarantees basic rights in the Constitution |
Nationalization | citizens who believe that a state or local authority has denied them their basic rights may take their case to a federal court |
incorporation | extended the Bill of Rights to all levels of government |
Allegheny County v ACLU | a publicly funded Nativity scene by itself violated the constitution |
Reynolds v US | people are not free to worship in ways that violate laws protecting the health, safety, or morals of the community |
Jacobson v Massachusetts | court upheld compulsory vaccination laws for students, even though some religions prohibit it |
Wisconsin v Yoder | court decided that the state could not require Amish parents to send their children to public school beyond 8th grade |
Establishment Clause | congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion |
Free Exercise Clause | prohibits government from unduly interfering with the free exercise of religion |
parochial schools | schools operated by a church or religious group |
abridged | limited |
precedent | decisions made on the same issue in earlier cases |
secular | nonreligious |
equal access act | allows public high schools receiving federal funds to permit student religious groups to hld meetings in the school |