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This freedom protects our right to articulate opinions and ideas without interference, retaliation or punishment from the government.
This freedom protects peaceful, non-violent, gatherings.
Freedom of Assembly
What is the acronym we use to remember the 5 rights protected by the First Amendment?
R.A.P.P.S
This freedom protects us from the government establishing a religion, and protects the religious beliefs, and to a certain extent, the religious practices of all citizens
Freedom of Religion
This freedom 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.
Freedom of Petition
This freedom protects the right to gather information and report it to others.
Freedom of Press
As a person becomes more well-known or takes official positions in the government, the Court has afforded them ____ protections against defamation.
Less
Which right protected by the First Amendment did the nation’s founders think to be the most important?
True or false? There is no “legal age” you have to reach to exercise your First Amendment rights. You are afforded these rights when you are born.
True
True or False? The First Amendment protects speech even when the ideas put forth are thought to be illogical, offensive, immoral or hateful.
True
Your First Amendment rights are protected at school until they do what?
Cause a disruption OR violate school policy
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
When is obscene content allowed to be broadcasted?
NEVER
Between what hours of the day are profane and indecent content NOT allowed to be broadcasted?
6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
In which year was the First Amendment ratified?
1791
What are words that by their very utterance inflict injury and tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace?
Fighting words
What is an intentional and false statement about an individual that is publicly communicated, causing injury to the individual?
Defamation
What is unwelcome conduct that is sufficiently severe, persistent, and pervasive (unwanted and spreading) to unreasonably interfere with that individual’s educational (or employment) environment, creating an environment would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive?
Harassment
What is 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?
True threat
What is the term used to describe acts or words that are considered to be offensive and go against the prevailing morality of a given time, usually sexual in nature, and there is a three-part test used to determine if material meets these criteria?
Obscenity
Which case is this? A principal viewed and removed articles regarding teen pregnancy and divorce from a school-sponsored newspaper of Hazelwood East High. The students decided to take the case to court. The court found the First Amendment offers less protections to student sponsored newspapers versus newspapers independently established by students.
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
What case is this? 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
Which case is this? The New York Times posted an ad referring to the police brutality experienced by those in the Civil Rights Movement. Public official L.B. Sullivan was in charge of the police, and though he was not mentioned in the ad, he felt the ad negatively affected his reputation. He sued for Defamation and the ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court.
New York Times v Sullivan
Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag to protest the Reagan Administration. Burning an American flag violated Texas law of flag desecration. As a result, he was sentenced to jail and fined $2,000.
Texas v Johnson
Which case is this? A student held up a banner at a school sponsored event that said "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." The principal requested he put the banner down, and when he refused, the principal took it and suspended him for violating school policy that prohibited the promotion of illegal drug use.
Morse v Frederick