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Chapter 17-19 Crossword

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MR. KELLEY
Horizontales
Under U.S. constitutional law, the second highest level of scrutiny used by courts reviewing federal law for constitutional legitimacy. "Super strict scrutiny" is the highest level.
Opponents to slavery who wished to put an end to the institution.
A tax that voters in many states were required to pay in order to exercise their right to vote. These barriers were used up to 1964 to prevent African Americans from voting.
The principle that government must respect all, not some, of a person's legal rights.
In U.S. constitutional law, the lowest level of scrutiny applied by courts deciding constitutional issues through judicial review.
The process through which the U.S. Supreme Court has applied the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to extend the reach of the Bill of Rights to include protection from interference by states.
Fundamental rights such as those to life, liberty, and property. These are called basic rights because they are considered more important than other, non-basic rights, such as the right to dispute a parking ticket.
In U.S. history, the act of states leaving the Union in 1861 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln; precipitated the Civil War.
Verticales
Judicial interpretations of the due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution requiring the content of law to be fair and reasonable.
The argument, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) but later reversed, that racially segregated public facilities are constitutional if those facilities are of equal quality.
In U.S. constitutional law, the middle level of scrutiny applied by courts deciding constitutional issues through judicial review.
A system of justice in which court trials are essentially contests between accuser and accused that take place before an impartial judge or jury.