GVPT 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Exclusionary Rule, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Bad Tendency

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 170
• Professor: kristinamiler

Document Summary

Focus on the trade-off between freedom & order. Civil liberties focuses on the freedoms that protect citizens from governmental abuse of power (106) Restrict what government can do to you. 14th amendment no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law. Used to apply fundamental rights to the states and protect civil liberties from state governments as well. Two key parts of freedom of religion. Government can not sponsor or endorse one religion as the national religion or favor religion over no religion. Government must maintain neutrality, but this does not bar all assistance to religious institutions. Thomas jefferson"s separation of state and church doctrine. Court established a 3-prong test to evaluate laws: Primary effect of the law cannot be to advance or inhibit religion. Law does not excessively entangle government & religion. Declares school prayer to be unconstitutional because it violates separation of church and state.