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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 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
Unconviental religious practice
Free exercise clause
Civil rights
Preferred freedoms
2. Clause of the 1st amendment prohibiting congress from enacting laws 'respecting...religion'.
Est. clause
Moment of silence
Compelling govnt interest
Freedom of assembly
3. Being tried 2 times for same offense compulsory self-incrimination (pleading).
Separation of church and state...
Creation science
Double jeopardy
Prior restraint
4. Conduct undertaken to express a message.
Picketing
Least restrictive means...
Expressive Conduct
Clear and present danger test
5. 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.
Clear and probable danger test...
Incorporation
Freedom of association
Compelling govnt interest
6. 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.
Incorporation
Least restrictive means...
Freedom of speech...
Habeaus Corpus
7. Practices outside the religious mainstream.
Free exercise clause
Compelling govnt interest
Unconviental religious practice
Pure speech
8. The tort of defamation through published manner.
Incorporation
Picketing
Free exercise clause
Libel
9. 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.
School prayer...
Free marketplace of ideas
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech...
10. Enables a court to review a custodial situation and order the release of an individual Who is found to have been illegally incarcerated
Imminent lawless action...
Clear and probable danger test...
Secular govnt...
Habeaus Corpus
11. The most demanding level of judicial review in cases involving alleged infringements of civil rights/liberties
Freedom of association
Strict scrutiny
Freedom of expression...
Free marketplace of ideas
12. 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.
Moment of silence
Natural rights
School prayer...
Habeaus Corpus
13. Whether the gravity of 'evil' discounted by its improbably justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid danger.
Double jeopardy
Clear and probable danger test...
Habeaus Corpus
Clear and present danger test
14. Term referring to a time - place or manner regulation that is enforced w/o regard to the content of expression.
Content-neutral
Libel
Public forum
Est. clause
15. Unlawful conduct that is about to take place and which is inevitable unless there is inheritable by authorities.
Natural rights
Unconviental religious practice
Clear and probable danger test...
Imminent lawless action...
16. The idea that there are scientific reasons to believe in creationism as opposed to evolution.
Strict scrutiny
Clear and present danger test
Creation science
Preferred freedoms
17. A summary term embracing freedom of speech of the press as well as symbolic speech and expressive conduct.
Seditious speech
Secular govnt...
Freedom of association
Freedom of expression...
18. A legislative act that imposes punishment on a person without benefitting of a trail in a court of law.
Bad tendency test
Bill of attainder
Fighting words
Est. clause
19. An activity that expresses a point of view/message symbolically - rather than through pure speech
Incorporation
Content-neutral
Seditious speech
Symbolic speech
20. Clause in the 1st Amendment prohibiting congress from abridging the free exercise of religion.
Pure speech
Separation of church and state...
Creation science
Free exercise clause
21. The right to publish media print free from prior restraint or sanctions.
Free exercise clause
Freedom of press
Unconviental religious practice
Secular govnt...
22. Overrides the fundamental rights of persons adversely affected by state action/policy.
Defamation
Libel
Bill of attainder
Compelling state interest
23. A tort involving the injury to one's reputation by malicious/reckless dissemination of a falsehood.
Symbolic speech
Defamation
Freedom of press
Moment of silence
24. Communication that is purely spoken.
Imminent lawless action...
Est. clause
Prior restraint
Pure speech
25. Govnt that is not affiliated w/ or controlled by religious authorities
Clear and probable danger test...
Secular govnt...
Compelling govnt interest
Bill of attainder
26. 1st amendment doctrine that permitted prohibited racial segregation as long as equal facilities or accommodation were prohibited.
Separation of church and state...
Libel
Creation science
Strict scrutiny
27. Overrides the fundamental rights of persons adversely affected by govnt action/policy.
Separation of church and state...
Compelling govnt interest
Expressive Conduct
Pure speech
28. A public space generally acknowledged as appropriate for public assemblies or expressions of views.
Compelling state interest
Secular govnt...
Compelling govnt interest
Public forum
29. The right of people to peaceable/assemble in a public place.
Double jeopardy
Natural rights
Freedom of assembly
Compelling state interest
30. Reasonable govnt regulations as to the time - place and manner of expressive actions protected by constitution
Time - place - manner regulations...
Clear and probable danger test...
Preferred freedoms
Seditious speech
31. Policy under which public school students are required to observe a minute of silence at the beginning of the school day.
Clear and probable danger test...
Defamation
Habeaus Corpus
Moment of silence
32. Various activities of a religious nature in the public schools
Slander
Defamation
School prayer...
Natural rights
33. The tort of defaming someone's character through verbal statements.
Imminent lawless action...
Slander
Freedom of expression...
Preferred freedoms
34. An official act preventing publication of a particular work.
Prior restraint
Fighting words
Unconviental religious practice
Freedom of association
35. The right of people to associate freely without unwarranted interference by govnt; implicitly protected by the 1st amendment.
Strict scrutiny
Least restrictive means...
Free marketplace of ideas
Freedom of association
36. The right to speak or express oneself freely without unreasonable inference by govnt.
Freedom of speech...
Unalienable rights
Bad tendency test
Least restrictive means...
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.
Double jeopardy
Symbolic speech
Clear and present danger test
Freedom of press
38. Expression aimed at inciting insurrection/overthrow of the govnt.
Free exercise clause
Unalienable rights
Seditious speech
Bill of attainder
39. Utterances that are inherently likely to provoke a violent response from the audience.
Fighting words
Est. clause
Strict scrutiny
Defamation
40. Life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness (john Locke).
Fighting words
Unalienable rights
Picketing
Prior restraint
41. Carrying signs of protest in the public form.
Secular govnt...
Libel
Picketing
Unalienable rights
42. A restrictive interpretation of the 1st amendment under which govnt may prohibit expression having a tendency to cause people to break the law
Freedom of press
Free exercise clause
Bad tendency test
Libel
43. 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
Bad tendency test
Preferred freedoms
School prayer...
Fighting words