Across
- 2. Ended poll taxes in federal elections
- 5. Illegally obtained evidence cannot be used
- 6. Bargain to plead guilty for a lesser sentence
- 10. Implied right to a personal CivilLiberties Constitutional & legal protections against government action
- 11. Policies protecting people from discrimination
- 13. Constitutional & legal protections against government action
- 15. Part of the 14th amendment that persons can't be deprived of life, liberty and property
- 21. Forbids U.S. government from establishing a religion
- 22. First time the court declared any law unconstitutional on the basis of gender discrimination
- 24. Government action that prevents material from being published
- 26. Granted women the right to vote
- 27. False written statements that harm reputation
- 28. Limited share or amount of something
- 31. rights act of 1965 Protected voting from racial discrimination
- 33. Communication in the form of advertising
- 34. Voting rights cannot be denied by race
- 35. Programs to increase opportunities for minorities
- 36. Testifying against oneself
- 37. Prohibited by the 8th amendment
- 38. Law protecting people with disabilities
- 39. Fee charged to vote in some states
- 40. Amendment that protects freedom of religion, speech, petition, press and of assembly
Down
- 1. Grants citizenship and equal protection to all persons born in the U.S.
- 3. Nationalized the Bill of Rights
- 4. Upheld internment of Americans of Japanese descent during WW II
- 7. First ten amendments to the U.S. constitution
- 8. Upheld separate but equal
- 9. Law making racial discrimination in public accommodations illegal
- 12. Supreme court decision holding that freedoms of press and speech protected by the 14th amendment
- 14. The legal right to vote
- 16. Requires equal treatment under the law
- 17. Case denying citizenship to enslaved people
- 18. Protects practicing of religion
- 19. Category of unprotected speech
- 20. Proposed amendment for gender equality
- 23. Unwelcome sexual advances
- 25. Abolished slavery
- 29. Ended segregation in public schools
- 30. Equal pay for jobs requiring similar skills
- 32. Nonverbal expression protected as speech
