Civil Liberties Formative

The Bill of Rights is:

• The statement police must read to you when you are arrested.

• The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

• The opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

• The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

What is the correct definition of civil liberties?

• Actions taken by the government to address discrimination or promote equal treatment

• Freedoms granted to citizens intended to protect them from an abusive government

A group of people holding picket signs and protesting are exercising their right to:

• Civil Disobedience

• Sedition

• Assembly

• Freedom of Religion

• Petition

Which of the following is NOT a right explicitly protected by the First Amendment?

• Press

• Privacy

• Assembly

• Religion

• Petition

Bart is ticked off. To make time for more standardized testing, the public school he attends has decided to reduce recess to three minutes a day. To protest the school’s decision, he publishes a one-page flyer that says “Recess Rules! Standardized Testing Drools.” As he has seen many other community activists do before, he takes his flyers to the town square, where he peacefully offers copies to passerby. Which of the following acts probably violates his First Amendment rights?

• A police officer politely orders Bart to stop distribution and go home

• A local merchant, an ardent support of standardized testing, takes a flyer out of Bart’s hand and angrily shreds it

• Bart’s mother, embarrassed by the all the hullabaloo, confiscates the flyers and grounds him for two weeks

• All of the above

A disgruntled employee at Bank of America was arrested for a post he made on social media calling for the midtown bank he worked at to be robbed. In his post, he provided the alarm and safe codes of the bank and named individuals behind on their mortgage who should go into the bank “and take back what’s rightfully theirs.” One of the named individuals acted on employee’s words, and attempted to rob the bank two hours after the social media post. Why was the employee’s speech not protected?

• It contained fighting words

• It promoted imminent lawless action

• The bank had a time, place, and manner restriction on the employee

• The information contained libel

Which of these would be protected by the First Amendment? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)

• Holding a protest supporting issues that are unpopular and upsetting

• Writing a critical article of the president

• debating controversial issues on social media

• Smashing car windows during a protest march

• Posting on social media encouraging your friends to physically attack someone

Mark and Ryan want to eliminate helmet laws and decided to hold a protest on the local bike path. The protest was broken up by police after several cyclists accidentally collided with protesters. Why was Mark and Ryan’s assembly limited?

• They criticized government laws

• The time, place, and manner of the protest interfered with public safety

• They offended citizens who support helmet laws

• They protest shouldn’t have been broken up. That was illegal

Ashley and Jack want to bring awareness to gun violence at school. They plan to get a large group of students to engage in silent protest at lunch by displaying a large sign with the names of all the victims from the Parkland shooting. Can the school limit this action?

• Yes. Students do not have any first amendment rights at school.

• Yes. There is an imminent lawless action concern.

• No, so long as the action does not substantially interfere with the learning environment.

• No. Speech can only be limited at school if fighting words are used.

You are asked to add your signature to a letter written to the local Decatur government asking them to improve the quality of roads in the city. You signed the letter along with 50 other Decatur residents. You are exercising your first amendment right of

• Speech

• Religion

• Petition

• Press

• Assembly