Unit 3 Vocabulary- Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties are?

• unwritten but widely agreed upon

• rights to vote and participate in American democracy

• laws that provide and set limits on ones freedoms

• individual legal and constitutional protections against the government

American civil liberties are found in the?

• Preamble

• Declaration of Independence

• Statute of Religious Freedom

• Bill of Rights

Slander is spoken from?

• clear and present danger

• fighting words

• defamation of character

• seditious speech

______ is written lies about a person that damages his/her reputation.

• censorship

• slander

• libel

• bail

Which clause prevents the national government from sanctioning an official religion?

• Establishment

• free exercise

• full faith and credit

• equal protection

The government may not establish an official religion

• Establishment Clause

• Privileges and Immunities Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Necessary and Proper Clause

The Free Exercise Clause:

• Prevents the Congress from passing legislation forcing an establishment of religion... to promote theocracy or promote a specific religion with taxes.

• Protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul of a "public morals" or a "compelling" governmental interest.

• Established that some categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection (obscenity, fraud, etc.)

• Established protection for whistleblowers

The due process guarantee can be found in

• 5th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 5th and 14th Amendments

The government may not curb or censor expression before the fact; this is known as

• symbolic speech

• commercial speech

• prior restraint

• sedition

Expression by conduct is known as

• marketplace of ideas

• prior restraint

• symbolic speech

• bad tendency