Chapter 4

Question 0

Publication of false statements that ruin someone’s reputation.

Answer 0

Libel

Question 1

Keeping the press from publishing something in advance (illegal)

Answer 1

Prior restraint

Question 2

Public standards vary from place to place, time to time, person to person

Answer 2

Obscenity

Question 3

When the government targets someone or a small group of people to commit a crime

Answer 3

Entrapment

Question 4

Nonverbal communication

Answer 4

Symbolic speech

Question 5

Police have a specific reason to search or arrest a person

Answer 5

Probable cause

Question 6

Getting evidence in a ‘random’ way. Illegal search on someone’s property for no reason

Answer 6

Illegal search and seizure

Question 7

No federal funds go to abortions

Minors must notify one or both parents or a judge before obtaining an abortion

Answer 7

Roe v. Wade

Question 8

The 1963 supreme court decision: anyone who is accused of a crime no matter how rich or poor they are can get a lawyer

Answer 8

Gideon v. Wainwright

Question 9

The 1976 Supreme Court decision: the death penalty is suitable for the most extreme crimes. Not cruel or unusual

Answer 9

Gregg v. Georgia

Question 10

Part of the first amendment

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

Answer 10

Establishment clause

Question 11

First amendment provision

Prohibits government from interfering with the practice of religion

Answer 11

Free exercise clause

Question 12

The legal constitutional protection against government

Courts, police, and legislatures define the meanings of the bill of rights

Answer 12

Civil liberties

Question 13

A 1951 Supreme Court decision: permitted the government to jail several American communist party leaders under the smith act
Law forbidding advocacy of the violent overthrow of the u.s government

Answer 13

Dennis v. United States

Question 14

The 1966 Supreme Court decision: sets guidelines for police questioning of a person to protect themselves of self-ins rumination and the right to counsel

Answer 14

Miranda v. Arizona

Question 15

The 1963 Supreme Court decision: holding that freedoms of press and speech are “fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause and 14th amendment”

Answer 15

Gitlow v. New York

Question 16

Freedom of press, speech,and assembly

Answer 16

First amendment

Question 17

Right to bear arms

Answer 17

Second amendment

Question 18

No quartering of soldiers during peacetime

Answer 18

Third amendment

Question 19

Right of search and seizure

Answer 19

Fourth amendment

Question 20

Provisions concerning prosecution

Answer 20

Fifth amendment

Question 21

Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.

Answer 21

Sixth amendment

Question 22

Right to a trial by jury

Answer 22

Seventh amendment

Question 23

Excessive bail, cruel punishment

Answer 23

Eighth amendment

Question 24

The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation

Answer 24

Slander

Question 25

In 1969 Supreme Court decision: found that it permissible to advocate the violent overthrow of the government

Answer 25

Brandenburg v. Ohio

Question 26

In 1957 Supreme Court decision: permissible to advocate the violent overthrow of the government

Answer 26

Yates v. United States