Essential Question:

1

• Essential Question
• How did the decisions of the Supreme Court impact
  civil liberties in the 1960s 1970s?
• Warm-Up Question
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2
Supreme Court Activity You Decide

• Working with a partner, examine the background
  information for each of the four landmark Supreme
  Court cases
• Answer the questions provided
• Give question 3 serious attention because you
  are asked to predict how the Supreme Court
  decided each case
• Take notes on how the Supreme Court actually
  ruled when these decisions are revealed by the
  teacher

3
Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

• Question 
• Did the state court's failure to appoint counsel
  for Gideon violate his right to a fair trial as
  protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?

4
Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

• Conclusion 
• In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that a
  fair trial for a poor defendant could not be
  guaranteed without an attorney. The Court stated
  that the 6th Amendment's guarantee of counsel
  was a fundamental right, essential to a fair
  trial, which should be made applicable to the
  states through the 14th Amendments due process
  clause.

5
Miranda v Arizona (1966)

• Question 
• Does the police practice of interrogating
  individuals without notifying them of their right
  to counsel and their protection against
  self-incrimination violate the Fifth Amendment?

6
Miranda v Arizona (1966)

• Conclusion In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court
  ruled that prosecutors could not use statements
  gained from interrogated defendants unless they
  demonstrated procedural safeguards to protect
  the accused against self-incrimination. The Court
  outlined the necessary aspects of police warnings
  to suspects, including their rights to remain
  silent and to have an attorney during
  interrogations.

7
Roe v Wade (1973)

• Question 
• Should a womans decision to have an abortion be
  protected under the Constitution as a matter of
  privacy?

8
Roe v Wade (1973)

• Conclusion 
• In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court held that a
  woman's right to an abortion was a matter of
  privacy that was protected by the 14th Amendment.
  The decision gave women total control over the
  pregnancy during the 1st trimester and defined
  different levels of state interest for later
  trimesters. As a result, the laws of 46 states
  were affected by the Court's ruling.

9
Regent of UC Davis v Bakke (1978)

• Question Did the University of California
  violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal
  protection clause, and the Civil Rights Act of
  1964, by practicing an affirmative action policy
  that resulted in the repeated rejection of
  Bakke's application for admission to its medical
  school?

10
Regent of UC Davis v Bakke (1978)

• Supreme Court Ruling 
• No and yes. In a 5-4 decision, the Court forced
  the university to accept Bakke. But, the majority
  opinion argued that the use of race as one of
  many sets of criterion in admissions decisions
  was constitutional. So, the Court managed to
  minimize white opposition to the goal of equality
  (by finding for Bakke) while extending gains for
  racial minorities through affirmative action.

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Closure Activity

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