Question 1

What are civil liberties?

Accepted Answer

Natural rights and freedoms that belong to everyone

Protections against a totalitarian government

Question 2

What are civil rights?

Accepted Answer

Personal rights designed to protect against discrimination and provide equality before the law

Question 3

What is a writ of habeas corpus?

Accepted Answer

An order that demands whoever is holding a detainee (e.g., a prison) to bring that detainee to court to determine if that detainee is being held unlawfully

Question 4

What is a bill of attainder?

Accepted Answer

Punishment without a proper judicial trial

(unconstitutional)

Question 5

What are ex post facto laws?

Accepted Answer

Laws that punishes an action that was legal when the action was originally performed

(unconstitutional)

Question 6

What is self-incrimination?

Accepted Answer

Making a statement that can lead to your criminal prosecution

(you have a right to refuse to make statements that could lead to your self-incrimination under the 5th Amendment)

Question 7

What is double jeopardy?

Accepted Answer

Prosecuting someone multiple times for the same offense

(prohibited by the 5th Amendment)

Question 8

What is incorporation?

Accepted Answer

Applying the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Civil Liberties, AP U.S. Government and Politics Flashcards