Ch 8

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

• Civil Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Alien

• Due Process Clause

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

• Civil Rights

• Alien

• Due Process Clause

• Establishment Clause

Foreign-born resident, or noncitizen

• Alien

• Due Process Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

Doctrine that holds that the government must act fairly and in accord with established rules in all that it does.

• Due Process Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

• Parochial

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

• Establishment Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

• Parochial

• Libel

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.

• Free Exercise Clause

• Parochial

• Libel

• Slander

Church related, as in a parochial school.

• Parochial

• Libel

• Slander

• Seditious Speech

False and malicious use of printed words.

• Libel

• Slander

• Seditious Speech

• Symbolic Speech

False and Malicious use of spoken words.

• Slander

• Sedition

• Seditious Speech

• Symbolic Speech

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

• Sedition

• Seditious Speech

• Symbolic Speech

• Picketing