Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. freedoms to protect people from abuses of government
  2. 4. policy used to overcome the effects of past discrimination
  3. 5. protected free speech that may be visual
  4. 7. segregated by social norms rather than by law
  5. 8. theory that everyone will not achieve the same thing all the time
  6. 10. refusal to obey or comply with law as a means of peaceful opposition
  7. 11. laws created to segregate people based on race.
  8. 14. protecting the rights of all at all levels of government
  9. 16. segregated by law
  10. 17. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
  11. 18. also known as "separation of church and state."
  12. 20. the government may not deprive a person of their life, liberty and property without this
  13. 22. says the government will not create and support an official state church
  14. 23. the First Amendment right to practice one's religion.
  15. 24. evidence that can not be used against a person if it was collected illegally
Down
  1. 1. when the federal government is preventing material from being published
  2. 3. a test that defines the point a which free speech loses protection
  3. 6. the Bill of Rights are applied to state and local governments, not just federal
  4. 9. lawsuit for the publication of false and malicious words of a person
  5. 12. laws created to protect from discrimination
  6. 13. help with extra education, training or services due to previous segregation laws
  7. 15. when police have proof of evidence to that can call for a search warrant
  8. 19. theory that access to opportunities should be given to all
  9. 21. makes it a crime to say anything negative about the government during times of war