4.1 Roots of Civil Liberties: The Bill of Rights
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The Incorporation Doctrine: The Bill of Rights made Applicable to the States
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4.2 First Amendment Guarantees: Freedom of Religion
The Establishment Clause
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The Free Exercise Clause
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4.3 First Amendment Guarantees: Freedoms of Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
Freedoms of Speech and Press
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Protected Speech and Press
Libel and Slander
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4.4 The Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
- Dred Scott v. Sandford(listed the right to own and carry arms as a basic right of citizenship)
- U.S. v. Miller(stating that the second amendment was intened to protect a citizen's right to own ordinary militia weapons, which did not includ sawed-off shotguns.
4.5 The Rights of Criminal Defendants
- The Fourth Amendment Searches and Seizures
- The Fifth Amendment self-incrimination and double jeopardy
- The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, Jury Trials
- The Eighth Amendment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
4.6 The Right to Privacy
- Birth Control, Abortion and Homosexuality.
- All are the right to someone privacy and can't make laws preventing any of them
4.7 Toward Reform: Civil Liberties and Combating Terrorism
- First and Fourth Amendment
- Due Process Rights
- detainees have a right of habeas corpus