1/24/2013

Question 1

protections the Constitution provides against the abuse of government powers-for all at all times.

Answer 1

Civil Liberties

Question 2

– made it a crime to write, utter, or publish “any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” with the intention of defaming the president, Congress or the government or of exciting against the government “the hatred of the people.” The policy entrepreneurs were Federalist politicians who believed that Thomas Jefferson and his followers were supporters of the French Revolution.

Answer 2

Sedition Act – 1798

Question 3

– made it a crime to utter false statements that would interfere with the American military, to send through the mails material a ”advocating or urging treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States.” The policy entrepreneur leading to the massive crackdown(the so-called Red Scare) was Atty. General A. Mitchell Palmer.

Answer 3

Espionage and Sedition Acts – 1917-1918

Question 4

Denies government the right, without due process, to deprive people of life, liberty, and property.

Answer 4

due process law

Question 4

A standard of equal treatment that must be observed by the government.

Answer 4

Equal protection of the law

Question 5

Court cases that apply Bill of Rights to states.

Answer 5

Selective incorporation

Question 6

-Right of people to speak, publish and assemble.

Answer 6

Freedom of expression

Question 7

People shall be free to exercise their religion, and government may not establish a religion.

Answer 7

Freedom of religion

Question 8

Censorship of a publication

Answer 8

Prior restraint

Question 9

Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions.

Answer 9

Clear-and-present-danger test

Question 10

Gitlow v. New York (1925)-Supreme Court says the First Amendment applies to states. Palko v. Connecticut-Supreme court says the states must observe all “fundamental” liberties.

Answer 10

Landmark Cases of Incorporation

Question 11

Libel, obscenity, symbolic speech, and false advertising.

Answer 11

Four forms of speech not automatically protected

Question 12

writing that falsely injures another person

Answer 12

Libel

Question 13

Court has not come up with a clear definition

Answer 13

Obscene

Question 14

an act that conveys a political message.

Answer 14

Symbolic speech

Question 15

did not find a definition (guess we can figure it out) Ha!

Answer 15

False Advertising