Trivia
Citizens are protected from this group's arbitrary decisions?
What is the government?
All of these freedoms are a part of the First Amendment
What is freedom of press, speech, religion, right to petition and assembly?
This doctrine prevents the government from prohibiting speech or publication before the fact; generally held to be a violation of the 1st Amendment
What is prior restraint?
Symbols, signs and other methods of expression generally considered to be protected by the First Amendment
What is symbolic speech?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers, and effects w/o a warrant
What is the 4th amendment?
We believed the Constitution needed more protections against a strong Federal Government
The Anti-Federalists
In the Court's ruling on this case, the employer was not forced to provide birth control for its female employees and upheld the company's religious freedoms rights
What was the Hobby Lobby case
Laws that allowed for the imprisonment and deportation of aliens considered to be dangerous and criminalized false statements against the government
What are Alien and Sedition Acts?
communication that belittles a person or group on the basis of race, gender, or ethnicity or other characteristics is called this
What is hate speech?
This was a landmark case that held the police much inform a suspect of his or her constitutional rights protected by the 5th Amendment, including the rifht to an attorney
What was Miranda v. Arizona?
Madison wrote a new series of public letters similar to these in which he vowed to support a bill of rights
What were the Federalists Papers?
This judicial doctrine whereby most, but not all, protections found in the Bill of Rights are made applicable to the states via the 14th Amendment
What is selective incorporation?
What was Schenck v. US (1919) ?
Libel, slander, fighting words, and obscenity
What are types of speech that are not absolutely guaranteed?
Part of the Bill of Rights that sets out the basic procedural rights of due process which include a speedy trial, impartial juries, trials in the state and right to counsel.
What is the 6th Amendment?
It's can be referred to as a list of "Thou Shall Nots"
What is the The Bill of Rights?
It has to have a legitimate secular purpose; it doesn't advance nor inhibit religion; does not foster excessive government entanglement with religion
What are the 3 parts of the Lemon Test?
This test was created by the Supreme Court after the Schenck ruling that Congress had a right to restrict speech "of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger..."
What is the clear and present danger test?
This group shows up to protest at the funerals of gay military soldiers and is known to have anti-government, anti-LGBT views
What is the Westboro Baptist Church?
This right protects the accused from cruel and unusual punishment; __________ is an example of a practice once was ruled in 1972 as unconstitutional but overturned as constitutional in 1976
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
What is the first case that extended the 1st Amendment's protection of freedom of speech and the press to state governments?
In 1962, The Court ruled in this case that recitation of a brief nondenominational prayers was unconstitutional and clearly violated the Lemon test
What was Engel v. Vitale?
This Courts began to limit prior restraint with this case when the Court rules that the government could not block the publication of secret Dept of Defense documents illegally given to a newspaper
What is New York Times Co. US (1971)?
In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Court ruled that this type of speech is allowed as long is it doesn't incite violence?
What is hate speech?
This right is not found in the BOR but was established by several constitutional amendments including the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 9th and 14th Amendments
What is the Right to Privacy?