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Civil Liberties
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civics
Instructions:
Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The process by Which most provisions of the bill of rights have been extended to limit state action by the way of Due process clause of the 14th amendment.
Pure speech
Expressive Conduct
Creation science
Incorporation
2. Policy under which public school students are required to observe a minute of silence at the beginning of the school day.
School prayer...
Clear and probable danger test...
Time - place - manner regulations...
Moment of silence
3. The idea that there are scientific reasons to believe in creationism as opposed to evolution.
Creation science
Clear and probable danger test...
Expressive Conduct
Est. clause
4. Unlawful conduct that is about to take place and which is inevitable unless there is inheritable by authorities.
Public forum
Imminent lawless action...
School prayer...
Clear and present danger test
5. A public space generally acknowledged as appropriate for public assemblies or expressions of views.
Public forum
Moment of silence
Least restrictive means...
Pure speech
6. Conduct undertaken to express a message.
Picketing
Expressive Conduct
Slander
Freedom of speech...
7. The right of people to peaceable/assemble in a public place.
Picketing
Symbolic speech
Libel
Freedom of assembly
8. Overrides the fundamental rights of persons adversely affected by govnt action/policy.
Compelling govnt interest
Creation science
Incorporation
Libel
9. Whether the gravity of 'evil' discounted by its improbably justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid danger.
Libel
Least restrictive means...
Clear and probable danger test...
Freedom of press
10. Communication that is purely spoken.
Fighting words
Imminent lawless action...
Unconviental religious practice
Pure speech
11. An official act preventing publication of a particular work.
Imminent lawless action...
Symbolic speech
Freedom of association
Prior restraint
12. The tort of defamation through published manner.
Creation science
Libel
Freedom of press
Unconviental religious practice
13. 1st amendment doctrine that permitted prohibited racial segregation as long as equal facilities or accommodation were prohibited.
Separation of church and state...
Unconviental religious practice
Free marketplace of ideas
Compelling govnt interest
14. Carrying signs of protest in the public form.
Freedom of expression...
Picketing
Libel
Public forum
15. Reasonable govnt regulations as to the time - place and manner of expressive actions protected by constitution
Imminent lawless action...
Public forum
Time - place - manner regulations...
Pure speech
16. A tort involving the injury to one's reputation by malicious/reckless dissemination of a falsehood.
Freedom of assembly
Defamation
Bad tendency test
Content-neutral
17. Term referring to a time - place or manner regulation that is enforced w/o regard to the content of expression.
Picketing
Preferred freedoms
Content-neutral
Seditious speech
18. Overrides the fundamental rights of persons adversely affected by state action/policy.
Compelling state interest
Moment of silence
Defamation
Compelling govnt interest
19. The most demanding level of judicial review in cases involving alleged infringements of civil rights/liberties
Public forum
Imminent lawless action...
Fighting words
Strict scrutiny
20. Clause in the 1st Amendment prohibiting congress from abridging the free exercise of religion.
Bad tendency test
Slander
Free exercise clause
Double jeopardy
21. Certain freedoms (speech) greatly protection than other activities when legislative measure that restricts preferred freedoms is challenged the ordinary presumption that the restrictions - constitutional is reversed in favor of the presumptive protec
Preferred freedoms
Pure speech
Freedom of speech...
Bad tendency test
22. A restrictive interpretation of the 1st amendment under which govnt may prohibit expression having a tendency to cause people to break the law
School prayer...
Bad tendency test
Defamation
Unalienable rights
23. Utterances that are inherently likely to provoke a violent response from the audience.
Bill of attainder
Fighting words
Separation of church and state...
Unalienable rights
24. A legislative act that imposes punishment on a person without benefitting of a trail in a court of law.
Secular govnt...
Freedom of association
Bill of attainder
Least restrictive means...
25. An activity that expresses a point of view/message symbolically - rather than through pure speech
Seditious speech
Expressive Conduct
Symbolic speech
Free marketplace of ideas
26. Govnt that is not affiliated w/ or controlled by religious authorities
Clear and probable danger test...
Freedom of press
Free exercise clause
Secular govnt...
27. The right to speak or express oneself freely without unreasonable inference by govnt.
Symbolic speech
Freedom of speech...
Creation science
Bill of attainder
28. The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. Lemon test: 3 part test forth in Lemon v. Kurtzman to pass muster under the Est. Clause - a law must have a secular purpose - must not have the principal effect of advancing or inhi
Least restrictive means...
Freedom of association
Preferred freedoms
Civil rights
29. The tort of defaming someone's character through verbal statements.
Compelling state interest
Defamation
Moment of silence
Slander
30. Rights are seen as inherently belonging to individuals and do what they please expect: interfere with rights of others-govnt is constitutionally empowered to act to restrict the exercise of that freedom.
Bill of attainder
Libel
Est. clause
Natural rights
31. Enables a court to review a custodial situation and order the release of an individual Who is found to have been illegally incarcerated
Est. clause
Habeaus Corpus
Clear and present danger test
Bill of attainder
32. The right to publish media print free from prior restraint or sanctions.
Habeaus Corpus
Freedom of press
Unconviental religious practice
Bad tendency test
33. The right of people to associate freely without unwarranted interference by govnt; implicitly protected by the 1st amendment.
Freedom of association
Strict scrutiny
Habeaus Corpus
Prior restraint
34. A judicial inquiry as to whether a particular policy that is being challenged as an infringement of some fundamental right is the least burdensome means of achieving the govnt objective.
Clear and present danger test
Freedom of press
Least restrictive means...
Slander
35. Expression aimed at inciting insurrection/overthrow of the govnt.
Slander
Compelling govnt interest
Expressive Conduct
Seditious speech
36. Practices outside the religious mainstream.
Unconviental religious practice
Moment of silence
Free marketplace of ideas
Clear and probable danger test...
37. The 1st amendment test that protects expression up to the point that poses a clear and present danger of bringing about some substantive evil that govnt has a right to prevent.
Freedom of expression...
Clear and present danger test
Incorporation
Seditious speech
38. The notion that expression should be unrestricted so that ideas can be traded freely in society - much as goods are freely exchanged in the marketplace.
Free marketplace of ideas
Slander
Clear and present danger test
Moment of silence
39. Various activities of a religious nature in the public schools
Compelling govnt interest
Clear and present danger test
School prayer...
Secular govnt...
40. Being tried 2 times for same offense compulsory self-incrimination (pleading).
Double jeopardy
Strict scrutiny
Freedom of assembly
Secular govnt...
41. A summary term embracing freedom of speech of the press as well as symbolic speech and expressive conduct.
Bad tendency test
Compelling state interest
Freedom of expression...
School prayer...
42. Clause of the 1st amendment prohibiting congress from enacting laws 'respecting...religion'.
Clear and present danger test
Est. clause
Public forum
Clear and probable danger test...
43. Life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness (john Locke).
Unalienable rights
Free exercise clause
Least restrictive means...
Libel