Chapter 10 American Government Final Review

How does the due process clause affect the US government?

• The government must follow established procedures to deny a person their natural rights

• The government must develop processes to ensure peoples' civil liberties are protected.

How does the Establishment Clause affect the US government?

• It prevents the government from making any laws that promote one religion

• It establishes an official policy that religious groups must follow by law.

How does the Free Exercise Clause affect the US government?

• It allows any person to practice any faith he or she chooses

• It allows the government to display religious symbols.

How does slander and libel affect the US government?

• These ideas limit people's First Amendment liberty of free speech.

• These concepts require the government to protect the freedom of speech.

How did government censorship of treasonous or seditious speech change?

• The government developed the power to censor speech that created a "clear and present danger"

• The government allows independent executive agencies to wiretap suspected terrorist organizations.

How has symbolic speech shaped the US government?

• Courts have traditionally claimed symbolic speech is protected so far as it doesn't pose a threat to property or public order.

• Courts have declare that symbolic speech that antagonizes the law Can be censored.

What is the purpose of the Fourth Amendment?

• to guarantee citizens personal security from unreasonable search and seizure

• to enable the building of a well trained state militia to provide for common defense

How has the government traditionally protected citizens from unreasonable search and seizure?

• Police are, in most situations, required to have a search warrant to search private property

• Police provide security cameras to people who have been victims of home invasion.

How has probable cause shaped the Fourth Amendment?

• Police can search a person or property if there is strong evidence that a crime has been committed.

• Police must call the judge to attain a search warrant before searching an individual's vehicular property.

What limitations are placed on a search warrant?

• The police are limited to looking for what is stated on the search warrant.

• The police must have the permission of the property owner to conduct the search.