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Religion
Speech
Press
Assembly & Petition
Property
100
These clauses state that congress can't legislate about the creation of a religion or the ability to practice religion.
What are the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses?
100
This type of speech is given the most protection by the courts.
What is pure speech?
100
These types of communication and press are protected under the First Amendment.
What are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet?
100
This freedom is applied to both public and private places.
What is the freedom of assembly and petition?
100
This amendment, along with the 14th amendment, provides for the protection of property.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
A Supreme Court case that struck down a Pennsylvania law reimbursing religious schools, and established a test to judge future laws that deal with religion.
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)?
200
A Supreme Court case that ruled that encouraging peaceful disobedience on the draft is not protected speech during wartime because it creates a "clear and present danger", and established a precedent on what is protected speech.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
200
The Alien and Sedition acts, though they were aimed against speech, also affected this other important freedom.
What is freedom of the press?
200
The First Amendment makes this guarantee regarding the right of assembly and petition.
What is "the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,"?
200
The 14th and 5th Amendment due process clause provides for the protection of these, and say that a person cannot be deprived of these without due process of the law.
What are "life, liberty, or property"?
300
A Supreme Court case that ruled Oregon could deny unemployment benefits to workers fired for using drugs (peyote) as part of a religious ceremony.
What is Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990)?
300
These 1798 acts outlawed speech that was "false, scandalous and malicious against the government or its officials," and set a precedent for a similar set of laws in the 1900s that were challenged in court.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
300
This Supreme Court case allowed school district censorship of student newspapers as long as censorship is related to legitimate concerns.
What is Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)?
300
This Supreme Court case established that the right of assembly was as important as any other First Amendment right and used the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment to apply this freedom to the states.
What is Dejonge v. Oregon (1937)?
300
This involves the policies of government or the subjects of the laws, determining whether the law is fair or unconstitutional.
What is substantive due process?
400
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." These clauses are from which part of the Constitution?
What is the First Amendment?
400
This Supreme Court case applied the protections of free speech to the states through the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is Gitlow v. New York (1925)?
400
This type of censorship is imposed on an expression before it actually takes place.
What is prior restraint?
400
In order to do this, you may be required to first obtain a permit, and this exercise of rights may be restricted from certain public facilities (schools, airports, jails), and may not be used to block private property.
What is parading or demonstrating?
400
This is the method of government action (how the law is executed according to established rules and procedure).
What is procedural due process?
500
This law was passed in 1993, giving the people the right to practice religious activities unless prohibited by narrowly tailored, "compelling interest" laws, and was repealed by a 1997 court case.
What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?
500
Since the 1940s the Court has considered this Amendment's freedoms more fundamental than other freedoms because they provide a basis for other liberties, and laws regulating these freedoms must be necessary.
What is the First Amendment?
500
This Supreme Court case applied the protections of free press under the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment and prohibited prior restraint.
What is Near v. Minnesota (1931)?
500
If demonstrations become violent or dangerous to public safety, this government organization may do this.
What is the police breaking up a demonstration?
500
This right in the Fifth Amendment states that the government cannot take private property for public use without paying a fair price for it.
What is eminent domain?