pol/115 assignment.
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- This assignment is designed to help you analyze civil liberties and the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in upholding them.
Select a landmark Supreme Court case from the Bill of Rights Institute website.
Provide an analysis that addresses the following:
- The civil liberty that is addressed in the case including the text of the amendment from the Bill of Rights
- An explanation of the Supreme Court’s involvement, including the following:
- The importance of the ruling (why it is significant)
- How the case moved through the lower courts to eventually be heard by the Supreme Court
- The powers granted to the Supreme Court by the constitution that allowed them to rule on the case
- Format your assignment as one of the following:
- 12- to 15-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes in a separate word document.
- 875-word paper
- Another format approved by your instructor
- Cite 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your assignment. Do not use Wikipedia, Quora, Yahoo Questions or other crowdsourced websites as references.
- Include a reference list in APA format.
- Use in-text citations in APA format.