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