Freedom of Religion
This is the name of the 1st Amendment Clause that prevents the government from making laws that establish religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
Libel is when you write something untrue that damages someone... but there is one more element to libel.
What is malicious intent.
Yelling a false message that "There's a bomb!" while riding on a crowded bus.
Unprotected.
True or false: The 1st Amendment guarantees that a private company cannot legally abridge (cancel) your free speech.
False. The 1st Amendment only restrains the government from abridging your speech.
This Supreme Court case struck down a Texas law that sought to make flag burning a crime.
What is Texas v. Johnson.
True or False: Students are allowed to pray in school.
What is "TRUE". (Public schools are not allowed to sponsor prayer.)
Generally speaking, when does displaying a hate symbol become a hate crime?
What is "When there is an intention to threaten or intimidate" someone.
Leaving a hate symbol on a particular person's car whose nationality is targeted by the hate symbol.
Not protected: hate crime.
True or False: It is illegal for a city to require a permit for a protest march.
False.
In Virginia v/ Black, the Court ruled that this practice may or may not be a crime.
What is cross-burning.
This is the name of the clause that guarantees freedom to worship how or if you please.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
This form of speech, not protected by the Constitution, is when I say something untrue about someone with the intent to harm them or their reputation.
What is slander?
Burning an American flag.
Protected.
This is the Amendment that requires the States to observe the same protections of rights that are required by the Federal government.
The 14th Amendment
This is the case that recognized students in public schools have a limited right of free expression/speech.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines School System
This is the name of the three-pronged test to see if a law involving religion is permissible by the Constitution.
The Lemon Test
This form of unprotected speech involves calling for violence against the government.
Wat is seditious speech?
Wearing a shirt in a public park that promotes an offensive racial stereotype.
What is: Protected
This is the person who authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
In Citizens United v. FEC, this was equated to speech.
What is campaign contributions ($) from unions or corporations?
Describe one way for a law to fail the Lemon Test.
1) the law has a religious purpose
2) the law helps or hinders religion
3) the law creates "excessive entanglement" of government and religion
This the term that describes the government's attempt to prevent something from being printed or said.
What is prior restraint?
A student wearing a shirt in FCPS that promotes an offensive racial stereotype.
What is: Not protected.
True or False: Civil disobedience is protected by the Constitution.
False. An act of civil disobedience is judged by history according to its perceived merits or its perceived misguidedness.
Who are the Amish?