The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is made up of the first _____ Amendments to the Constitution
What is 10?
Court case in which the majority opinion compared sedition to yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater
What is Schenck v. US?
The clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.
What is the Establishment Clause?
The right to speak and the right to publish under the First Amendment has been interpreted widely to protect individuals and society from government attempts to suppress ideas and information, and to forbid government ________ of books, magazines, and newspapers as well as art, film, music and materials on the internet.
What is censorship?
speech directed at the overthrow of government. It includes speech attacking basic institutions of government, including particular governmental leaders.
What is Seditious Speech?
The Bill of Rights was ratified in which year?
What is 1791?
A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
What is a petition?
Rosenberger v. University of Virginia held that a Christian student magazine was/was not entitled to university funding along with other student publications
What is was entitled to?
a judge's order that a case may not be discussed in public.
What is a gag order?
Which amendment reads "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
What is the Third Amendment?
What are Five Rights/Freedoms protected by the first amendment?
What are the:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of the Press
Freedom of Religion
Freedom to Petition
Freedom to Assemble
Court case which protects Symbolic Speech (unless it causes a specific, direct threat to another individual or public order)
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
According to the Free Exercise Clause, a citizen has the right to practice their religion as they please. Does this mean they can practice Animal Sacrifice?
What is no, they cannot.
The Free Exercise Clause protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a "public morals" or a "compelling" governmental interest.
The government might outright prevent public distribution of media, or place conditions on speech that make it difficult for it to occur. Something as seemingly harmless as a town ordinance restricting where newspapers can be sold could be considered ____________.
What is Prior Restraint?
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State " is known as which clause to the Second Amendment?
What is the prefatory clause?
Which future president of the United States is credited with writing most of the Bill of Rights?
What is James Madison?
Two types of defamation are:
What is Libel and Slander?
What case ruled that for public schools to hold official recitation of prayers violated the Establishment Clause. ... The ruling did prohibit schools from writing or choosing a specific prayer and requiring all students to say it.
What is Engle v. Vitale?
1971 Court Case that defended the First Amendment right of free press against prior restraint by the government
What is the New York Times v. United States?
Which clause refers to the phrase "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"?
What is the operative clause?
Describe one why by which an amendment is made.
What is either:
2/3 Ratification by Congress, 3/4 Ratification by State Legislatures (26/27 times)
2/3 Ratification by Congress, 3/4 Ratification by State Conventions (1x)
a convention called by Congress in response to applications from 2/3 of the state legislatures and 3/4 State Legislature themselves
a convention called by Congress in response to applications from 2/3 state legislatures and 3/4 State Conventions
Nonverbal, nonwritten forms of communication, such as flag burning, wearing arm bands, and burning of draft cards (unless it causes a specific, direct threat to another individual or public order)
What is Symbolic Speech?
What are the three parts of the Lemon Test?
What are: Purpose, Effect and Entanglement
In 2017, three New Hampshire businessmen brought a defamation lawsuit up against Michael Gill, the owner of a New Hampshire mortgage company. It was Gill who put up billboards accusing the three businessmen of criminal activity. The billboards accused the three businessmen – an auto dealer CEO, banker, and developer – of participating in drug dealing and extortion. The jury found the allegations baseless and awarded just over $274 million in damages to the three businessmen.
What type of lawsuit is this an example of?
What is libel?
Which Founder stated that the establishment clause served as a “wall of separation between church and state?”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?