POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Free Exercise Clause, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, First Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 1100
• Professor: Osborn

Document Summary

Bill of rights (1971) - 1st 10 amendments. Civil liberties - individual freedoms that place limitations on the power of government********** Civil rights - the extension of government action to secure citizenship rights to all members of society. Federalism creates a lot of problems for civil liberties. States would do things differently than the national government. Supreme court told states that they have to observe the bill of rights. The would extend civil liberties to the states, case by case. 14th amendment - ensures rights to former slaves. Early 1900s - anybody born here is a citizen of the u. s. & of the state where they reside. Selective incorporation - the extension of the bill of rights to the states by the. 14th amendment on a case by case basis********** Freedom of religion - establishment clause & free exercise clause. Establishment clause - u. s. cannot have an official religion.