Unit 4 SS Civil Liberties

Civil liberties are

• Unwritten but widely agreed upon

• the rights to vote and participate in American democracy

• laws that provide and set limits on one's freedoms

• individual legal and constitutional pkrotections against the government

American civil liberties are found in the

• Preamble

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Statute of Religious Freedom

The free exercise of the First Amendment clause holds that people have the right to

• express themselves through speech as they choose

• donate money to political campaign they choose

• evade taxes if they can run faxt

• practice religion as they choose

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

• Establishment

• free exercise

• full faith and credit

• equal protection

_______ is written lies aabout a person that damages his/her reputation.

• Censorship

• Slander

• Libel

• Bail

Slander is a spoken form of a

• clear & present danger

• fighting words

• defamation of character

• seditious speech

This is your right to fair and equal treatment (usually in reference to the judicial system).

• free speech

• right to privacy

• due process

• suffrage

The incorporation doctrine involves

• The application of the Bill of Rights to the state

• the government's power to regulate corporations

• the extension of judicial review to state courts

• the interpretation of the commerce clause

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

• Civil Disobedience

• Assembly and Free Speech

• Sedition

• Freedom of Rights

The writ of Habeas Corpus is intended to prevent

• a prisoner from being tried from the same crime twice

• the accused from being brought before a judge

• the accused from being unjustly arrested and imprisoned without cause

• defendants from being denied a lawyer in court