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