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Civil Liberties
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affirmative action | |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954) | |
| Civil Liberties | |
| Civil Rights Act (1857) | |
| Civil Rights Act (1957) | |
| Civil Rights Act (1964) | |
| Civil Rights Cases (1883) | |
| Clear and present danger test | |
| Compelling government interest | |
| Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) | |
| Disenfranchise | |
| Due process | |
| Equal Pay Act | |
| Equal protection clause | |
| Equal Rights Amendment | |
| Engle v. Vitale (1962) | |
| Establishment clause | |
| Exclusionary rule | |
| Fifth Amendment | |
| Fifteenth Amendment | |
| Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Free exercise clause | |
| Freedom-of-choice plans | |
| Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | |
| Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | |
| Grandfather clause | |
| Heightened scrutiny test | |
| Interdistrict busing | |
| Jim Crow laws | |
| Lawrence v. Texas (2003) | |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) | |
| Libel | |
| Literacy test | |
| Mapp v. Ohio (1961) | |
| Majority-minority districts | |
| McDonald v. Chicago (2010) | |
| Metadata | |
| Miller v. California (1973) | |
| Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | |
| National Organization for Women (NOW) | |
| New Jersey v. TLO (1985) | |
| New York Times v. United States (1964) | |
| Nineteenth Amendment | |
| Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) | |
| Obscene speech | |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
| Poll taxes | |
| Preclearance | |
| Prior restraint | |
| Procedural due process | |
| Public interest | |
| Public safety exception | |
| Quotas | |
| Reasonableness standard | |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) | |
| Right to privacy | |
| Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
| Search and seizure | |
| Schenck v. United States (1919) | |
| Selective incorporation | |
| "separate but equal" | |
| Strict scrunity | |
| Substantive due process | |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971) | |
| Symbolic speech | |
| Thirteenth Amendment | |
| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Schools (1969) | |
| Voting Rights Act (1965) | |
| Wall of separation | |
| White flight | |
| White primary | |
| Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) |