Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Amendment allowing unrestricted government surveillance of electronic communications for security purposes.

Amendment prohibiting any government surveillance of citizen communications without their consent.

Amendment ensuring total freedom of expression on digital platforms without any government regulation.

Amendment to require a court order for government access to personal electronic data.

Enhanced protection of individual rights.

Increased social and political conflict.

Strengthened democratic institutions.

Improved representation for all groups.

The rights and protections afforded to individuals or groups that make up a smaller proportion of a society.

The rights and protections afforded to individuals or groups that make up a larger proportion of a society.

The rights and protections that can only be claimed by the majority population.

The rights and protections afforded to individuals or groups regardless of their proportion in a society.

The Missouri Compromise

The Voting Rights Act

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Civil Rights Act

The ability for a single Supreme Court justice to overturn laws.

A governmental system in which one person rules with absolute power.

The potential for a majority group to disregard the rights or interests of a minority group.

A form of government where power is vested in the hands of a small elite.

Totalitarianism

Autocracy

Representative Democracy

Direct Democracy

Through the establishment of independent redistricting commissions and transparent redistricting processes.

By eliminating the rights and protections of minority groups for the sake of majority interests.

By prioritizing the interests of the majority population in redistricting.

By disregarding the rights and interests of both minority and majority populations in redistricting.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Fair Housing Act

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Education Amendments Act of 1972

It decreased majority rights by taking away men's exclusive right to vote.

It made no significant impact on either minority or majority rights.

It led to an imbalance in favor of the majority as more people were able to vote.

It expanded minority rights by giving women, a previously disenfranchised group, the right to vote.

Marbury v Madison

Brown v Board of Education

Roe v Wade

Plessy v Ferguson