Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights

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Rights and Freedoms 

GOV.12B Identify and define the unalienable rights. 

GOV.12C Identify the freedoms and rights protected and secured by each amendment in the Bill of Rights. 

GOV.12D Analyze the reasons the Founding Fathers protected religious freedom in America and guaranteed its free exercise by saying that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," and compare this to the concept of separation of church and state. 

GOV.12E Analyze U.S. Supreme Court Interpretations of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution in selected cases, including Engel v. Vitale, Schenck v. United States, Texas v. Johnson, Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright, Mapp v. Ohio, and Roe v. Wade. 

GOV.12G Recall the conditions that produced the 14th Amendment and Describe subsequent efforts to selectively extend some of the Bill of Rights to the states through U.S. Supreme Court rulings and analyze the impact on the scope of fundamental rights and federalism. 

GOV.15B Analyze the importance of the First Amendment rights of petition, assembly, speech, and press and the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. 

GOV.16A Evaluate a U.S. government policy or court decision that has affected a particular racial, ethnic, or religious group such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Supreme Court cases of Hernandez v. Texas and Grutter v. Bollinger. 

GOV.19A Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions. 

GOV.20A Use social studies terminology correctly 

Civil Liberties, Due Process of Law, Equal Protection 

GOV.8D Explain how the U.S. Constitution limits the power of national and state governments. 

GOV.12F Explain the importance of due process rights to the protection of individual rights and in limiting the powers of government.

GOV.12G Recall the conditions that produced the 14th Amendment and Describe subsequent efforts to selectively extend some of the Bill of Rights to the states through U.S. Supreme Court rulings and analyze the impact on the scope of fundamental rights and federalism. 

GOV.22A Use social studies terminology correctly.