Here's our mission for day 3. You will have until Monday to complete it.
1. Using the information that you have gained from your research of Supreme Court Cases, you will use that knowledge to create an amazing Thematic Essay. This essay will work very well to help you with the PowerPoint section of your project.
2. Here's what you're going to do:
Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs addressing the task below, and a conclusion.
Theme: Supreme Court Cases Concerning Constitutional Civil Liberties
The United States Supreme Court has played a major role in either
expanding or limiting constitutional civil liberties in the United States.
Task:
Identify two Supreme Court cases that have had an impact on civil
liberties in the United States.
For eachcase identified:
- •Discuss the facts of the case
- •Identify a specific constitutional civil liberty issue addressed by the
Supreme Court - •Discuss how the decision of the Supreme Court either expanded or limited a specific constitutional civil liberty in the United States
You may use any appropriate Supreme Court case from your study of United States
history. Some suggestions you might wish to consider include
- Plessy v. Ferguson(1896),
- Schenck v. United States (1919),
- Korematsu v. United States (1944),
- Brownv. Board of
Education of Topeka(1954), - Mapp v. Ohio(1961),
- Gideonv. Wainwright(1963),
- Miranda v.Arizona (1966),
- Tinkerv. Des Moines School District(1969),
- New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985).
You are not limited to these suggestions.
Links to help you:
1. Use the links in the posts from TRP Days 1, and 2 to help you.
2. Here are links to the scoring rubric, and Outline.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SCORING RUBRIC
CLICK HERE FOR THE ESSAY OUTLINE
Good Luck!
2 comments:
Supreme court cases concerning constitutional civil liberties has played a major role on court cases by ruling if they are just or unjust.Most importantly they determine the justice of the case.The supreme court is the highest court system on the judicial branch.Some cases are T.L.O. vs New Jersey, Schenck vs U.S., etc.
The case Schenck vs the united states occurred in 1919 during world war 1.The civil rights that were in question were Freedom of speech and freedom of the press.Supreme court ruled that by obstructing the process where people would be recruited.The Espionage act was passed it was a U.S federal law passed shortly after world war 1.The outcome was that freedom of speech and press was limited.
The case T.L.O vs New Jersey occurred in 1985.The civil rights that were in question were search and seize.Supreme court ruled that such a search will be permissible in its scope when the measures were reasonable.The outcome was the search was legal even though he didn't have a search warrant to look in T.L.O purse.
Those were some all time important supreme court cases they both have a different outcome but both basically the same.The only difference was the principal didn't have a search warrant to look in her purse but did anyway. While Schenck had limited power to freedom of speech and press.Both similar in many ways while also different.
The Supreme Court fallows by the judicial review. They check if the laws are unconstitutional or constitutional. In the Supreme Court there are 9 people in total. There decisions affect people at time because it limits or expands civil liberties of citizens of the United States. In this essay I will be discussing about Tinker v Des Moines and University of California v Bakke.
Tinker v Des Moines:
This took place on December of 1965. The case Tinker v Des Moines originated in the Des Moines Iowa public school. The people that were involved in this case were John and Marybeth Tinker. The case was that John and Marybeth wanted to where wristbands but there school told them they weren’t aloud but they did it anyway. This got to the Supreme Court because it went through the school and went to trial and finally reached the Supreme Court. They went in favor of the school and the children of the school.
The civil liberties involved in this case were the first amendment, tenth amendment, and the fourteenth amendment. What was also involved was the bill of rights and the civil liberties of the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court ruled this case by ruling the situation in favor of the children because it was declared that the armbands were protested by the first amendment and the right of free speech.
The ruling of the Supreme Court due to the case did not expand or limit the civil liberties of Americans because it was freedom of speech and the children were in all there rights to say what they wanted to say.
University of California v Bakke:
1978, Alan Bakke was denied admission to the medical school in the UC even though his scores were higher than those of minority candidates who has seats set aside for them. A state supported school could use race as a basis for admission, though it ruled that quotes were illegal, Bakke admitted.
Tenth amendment reserved power of education v fourteenth amendment equal protection clause. Bakke was a white male who applied to the UC at Davis medical school denied admission because he didn’t meet the standards entrance requirements for special admissions to the medical school were discriminatory because only African American, Chicano, and Asian students could compete for these places.
The UC argued that its special admissions program remedied the long standing historical wrong of racial discrimination. The policy was constitutional and expanded civil rights and was limited or it maintained rights.
-Tanya C. 903.
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