Freedom of Speech
A statement where an individual communicates an intent to commit an unlawful action against and individual.
What is a true threat?
Protect our rights to gather together in groups to organize political meetings, street protests, religious gatherings, and parades.
What is freedom of Assembly?
Worshipping services that includes praying, singing, and preaching in tongues where some members would drink poison or get bitten by a snakes to prove how faithful they were.
What is religious snake handling?
A suppression of speech by an authority that is used to communicate towards the public and is deemed obscene or politically unacceptable.
What is censorship?
This is an assembly right in the first amendment that requires more than one individual to assemble.
What is the right of association?
The idea that church should be separated from the state and that all the citizens receive equal protection no matter their religion.
What are separationists?
Forms of speech that aren't protected under the first amendment.
What is obscenity, defamation, and incitement?
People that wanted a complete end to slavery by advocating in meetings or gatherings.
What is an abolitionists?
A case where Congress banned polygamy involving a man that was arrested for having two wives. The court ruled that the religion was not absolute freedom if they violated criminal laws.
What is the Reynolds vs. US case?
A case that involved students wearing black armbands to protest against the Vietnam war leading to them being expelled because they caused a distraction in school.
What is the Tinker vs. Demoines case?
People that advocated for women's rights to vote by organizing protests, meetings, and parades.
What is a suffragist?
Two students that believed in the Jehovah's witness religion expelled for refusing to salute the flag.
What is the Minersville v. Gotibus case?
A case that involved Johnson burning an American flag outside a convention center in order to protest against Ronald Reagan's policies. This was deemed to violate a Texas statute preventing the desecration of a venerated object.
What is Texas v. Johnson case?
Key figures in planning the March on Washington.
Who are Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson?
A case that involved a man that refused to work on Saturdays because he was a Seventh Day Adventist.
What is the Sherbert v. Verner case?