Gov - Pre-Assessment - Unit 3

Personal freedoms protected from arbitrary governmental interference. All citizens have these.

• ciivil liberties

• civil rights

• civil perogatives

• civil entitlements

Equal protection under the law was granted with the

• 14th amendment

• 13th amendment

• Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

The establishment clause is found in the

• 1st amendment

• 3rd amendment

• 8th amendment

• 14th amendment

The free exercise clause gives people the right to

• partake in any religion they choose, or not

• petition the government for change

• protest and assemble peaceably

• go for walks or runs on public lands

Yelling "fire" in a public theater when there is no fire is

• no protected since it may cause harm

• protected speech under the 1st Amendment

• determined by the judiciary depending upon circumstances

• is protected under the 1st Amendment when no gets hurt

False statements printed about someone is known as

• libel

• slander

• obscenities

• muckraking

The government does not have ------, the ability to stop a newspaper from printing information in advance.

• prior restraint

• non-disclosis

• limited reach

• speech redaction

This prevents arbitrary government decisions to avoid mistaken or abusive taking of life, liberty, or property from individuals without legal cause.

• due process

• judicial review

• the 9th Amendment

• rule of law

SCOTUS, over time, has applied the Bill of Rights to the states. This is called

• selective incorporation

• States' rights

• judicial devolution

• approbation

Equal protection under the law occurred throughout all of the states

• immediately after the Civil War

• when the 19th Amendment was ratified

• in 1964 as a result of Civil Rights legislation

• 1934 as part of New Deal legislation