Vocabulary Words
Prohibits an establishment of religion.
What is THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE?
Limitations on speech may be needed during wartime.
What is clear and present danger?
Public school students have the right to wear armbands in school to protest war.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
The first 10 Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Protects the freedom of religion, the right to free speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peacefully assemble, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
What is the First Amendment?
The right to stop spoken or printed expression in advance.
What is prior restraint?
Refers to false statements in print that defame someone, hurting their reputation.
What is Libel?
Schenck V United States (1919) was about this.
What is speech creating a "clear and present danger" is not protected by the First Amendment?
Protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
What is The Second Amendment?
Willfully or intentionally to cause harm, without legal justification or motive.
What is malicious intent?
Personal rights and freedoms that the government cannot interfere with arbitrarily.
What are Civil Liberties?
The idea that a free and independent press needs sufficient room to operate without undue restrictions or pressures.
What is breathing space?
The First Amendment protects the press against "prior restraint" by government even in cases involving national security.
What is New York Times v. United States (1971)?
Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, as well as excessive bail and fines.
What is the 8th Amendment?
Spoken defamation
What is slander?
Non-verbal actions that are intended to convey a particular message or statement.
What is symbolic speech?
The legal doctrine through which the Supreme Court has interpreted most individual liberties in the Bill of Rights to protect citizens from state actions, using the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is selective incorporation?
Engel v. Vitale was about this.
What is school sponsorship of religious activities violates the Establishment Clause?
States that the enumeration of specific rights in the Constitution does not imply that other rights do not exist.
What is the 9th Amendment?
To determine if laws or government actions comply with the Establishment Clause.
What is the lemon test?
Rights of the minority group members to be protected by the government against discrimination.
What are Civil Rights?
The mandate that the government must to adhere to standardizing rules and procedures while respecting the rights of all individuals.
What is the Due Process Clause?
Compelling Amish students to attend school past the eighth grade violates the free exercise clause.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)?
This Bill of Rights Amendment is the has not been incorporated.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
1st amendment does not protect it and no national standard defines what it is.
What is obscene speech?