Civics Chapter 8 Vocab

Guarantees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property from the arbitrary acts of government, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion

• Libel

• Civil Liberties

• Slander

• Sedition

Term used for positive acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people, e.g., prohibitions of discrimination

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

• Due Process Clause

• Assemble

Foreign-born resident, or non citizen

• Petition

• Libel

• Alien

• Injunction

Part of the 14th amendment which guarantees that no State deny basic rights to its people

• Symbolic Speech

• Due Process Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

Part of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution that guarantees the separation of church and State

• Due Process Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

• Picketing

• Establishment Clause

The second part of the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom; guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or she chooses to believe in matters of religion

• Petition

• Libel

• Free Exercise Clause

• Establishment Clause

Church-related, as in a parochial school

• Parochial

• Picketing

• Prior Restraint

• Petition

False and malicious use of printed words

• Libel

• Due Process

• Sedition

False and malicious use of spoken words

• Assemble

• Picketing

• Sedition

• Slander

Crime of attempting to overthrow the government by force or to disrupt its lawful activities by violent acts

• Due Process

• Sedition

• Right of Association

• Police Power