Marc Turetzky
Pols1, Spring 2016
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"Civil Liberties/Rights" & "One Man Changes the Constitution" Questions ***Turn this in when completed
1) What are civil liberties?
2) What is the Bill of Rights? List the basic rights found therein...
a. 1st Amendment:
b. 2nd Amendment:
c. 4th Amendment:
d. 5th Amendment:
e. 6th Amendment:
f. 7th Amendment:
g. 8th Amendment:
3) What are civil rights? How are they protected?
4) How did the system evolve from one protecting slavery, Jim Crow, elites, etc from one where everyone (more or less), even
non-citizens, have the right not to be discriminated against by the government and to equal protection of the laws?
"One Man Changes the Constitution?"
1) Who was Clarence Gideon and how did he, a poor, old man, literally "change the Constitution?"
2) Why did Florida not want to grant Mr. Gideon his 6th Amendment right to counsel in a criminal case? What was the state's
argument?
3) Why was a big-time lawyer like Abe Fortas and a Supreme Court Justice like Hugo Black so eager to help Gideon?
4) Ultimately, what sort of impact did the Gideon case have on the legal justice system and larger American society (if any)?