What is the acronym we use to remember the 5 rights protected by the First Amendment?
R.A.P.P.S
True or false: The internet should be given the same full protection as print media of the First Amendment.
TRUE
The nation's founders thought this to be the most important freedom.
The freedom of petition
What are the 5 rights protected by the First Amendment? And when do you receive these rights?
Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press, Speech
When you are born.
Who do you report to when if you find or see obscene content on TV or the radio?
The FCC
Protects the right to worship who/what you want to and how you want to.
The freedom of religion
Protects our right to ask the government to fix something we see as not working or to change a policy or practice we don’t like, without fear of retaliation or punishment.
The Freedom of Petition
Protects peaceful, not violent gatherings.
The freedom of assembly
The right to articulate opinions and ideas without interference, retaliation or punishment from the government.
The freedom of speech
This freedom protects the right to gather information and report it to others.
The freedom of press
A statement that frightens or intimidates one or more specified people into believing that they will be seriously harmed by the speaker or by someone acting for the speaker.
A true threat
Your First Amendment freedoms are protected in school UNTIL:
You disrupt the functioning of the school or violate school policies that don’t hinge on the message expressed.
When are obscene broadcasts allowed to be aired on TV or Radio?
NEVER
There must a “____ _____ _____ danger” or an “imminent incitement of lawlessness” before government officials may restrict free-assembly rights.
Clear and Present
When is indecent or profane content allowed to be aired on TV and Radio?
Between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
What is unwelcome conduct that is that is sufficiently severe, persistent, and pervasive (unwanted and spreading) to unreasonably interfere with educational or employment environment that a reasonable person would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive.
Harrassment
What are the two clauses concerning the freedom of religion?
The Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause
Written defamation is_____ and spoken defamation is_____
Libel, slander
An intentional and false statement about an individual that is publicly communicated, causing injury to the individual.
Defamation
A narrow category of unprotected expression that meets all of the following criteria:
A) the average person, would find that the work, appeals to the prurient (having or encourages an excessive interest in sexual matters) interest;
B) the work depicts or describes, in an offensive way, sexual conduct
C)the work lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Obscenity
In order for a statement to be deemed as Defamation, they have to prove ____ _____, which is a defamatory statement said “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
Actual Malice
Court case that argued the suspension of students Marybeth and John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt for wearing black arm bands in protest of the Vietnam War was in violation of their First Amendment rights.
Tinker v. Des Moines
New York Times v Sullivan
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Morse v Frederick