Congress ruled that many meetings must be opened to the public.
What is the Sunshine Act?
100
This protects American citizen's right to the Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, and Freedom of the Press.
What is the First Amendment?
100
The court ruled that Seperate but equal is unconstitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
What is the establishment clause?
100
The verbal expression of thought and opoinion before an audience that has chosen to listen.
What is pure speech?
200
In 1942 the Supreme Court ruled that words that are so insulting that they provoke immediate violence dod not constitute free speech.
What is Fighting Words?
200
Congress cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
200
Seperated schools cannot and never will be equal.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
200
Schools operated by a church or religious group.
What is a parochial school?
200
Actions such as marching or demonstrating?
What is speech plus?
300
Categorie of defamatory speech that is spoken.
What is Slander?
300
The Government must follow proper constitutional procedures in trials and in other actions it takes agiainst individuals.
What is Due Process?
300
A man claimed to have been refused admission to the University of California medical school because he was white. He sued and claimed he was a victim of reverse discrimination.
What is the Bakke Case?
300
Non-religious
What is secular?
300
Invovles using actions and symbols, instead of words to express opinions.
What is symbolic speech?
400
The First AMendment Freedoms are more fundamental than other freedoms because they provide the basis of all liberties.
What is The Preferred Position Doctrine?
400
Allows separate facilities for different races as long as those facilities were equal.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
In 1987 the Supreme Court favored affirmative action in a dispute involving equal protection for women.
What is Johnson v. Transpotation Agency, Santa Clara County, Calif.?
400
The practice of having more than one spouse.
What is Polygamy?
400
Urging resistances to lawful authority or advocating the overthrow of the government.
What is seditious speech?
500
THe mass extermination of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War II.
What is Holocaust?
500
Gives women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
The right to personal privacy in many areas ranging from child rearing to abortion. It is limited when the stae has a "compelling need" to protect society.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
Limited
What is Abriged?
500
False speech that damages a person's good name, character, or reputation.