American Government Chapter 4 - Civil Liberties
The individual right that is widely regarded as the most basic of individual rights is
freedom of expression
Justice Holmes's "clear and present danger" test holds that government can
restrict speech that threatens national security
In 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that creationism
Is a religious doctrine, not a scientific theory
Which of the following, relative to the others, is typically more protective of individual rights?
Judicial branch
The inclusion of certain provisions of the Bill of Rights in the Fourteenth Amendment, so that these rights are protected from infringements by the state governments, is called
selective incorporation
The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from
unreasonable searches and seizures
Government can lawfully prevent a political rally from taking place
when it can demonstrate that harmful acts will necessarily result from the rally
Libel applies to defamation of an individual's reputation through the
written word
In the Johnson flag-burning case, the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning
although offensive, cannot be prohibited
In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court ruled that
speech could be restricted when the nation's security is at stake
The Supreme Court has reasoned that a right of privacy is provided by
the implication of said right by the freedoms in the Bill of Rights
In its 1969 Brandenburg v. Ohio ruling, the Supreme Court established the ________ test.
Imminent Lawless
According to the Supreme Court, which is true regarding freedom of assembly?
Public officials can regulate the time, place, and conditions of public assembly, provided the regulations are reasonable
Spoken words that are known to be false and harmful to a person's reputation are an example of
Slander
The term civil liberties refers to specific individual rights that
Specific individual rights that are constitutionally protected from infringement by government
According to the Supreme Court, prayer in public schools violates
the establishment clause
In its 2011 Snyder v. Phelps ruling, the Supreme Court held that Westboro Baptist Church protests at military funerals
Were a constitutionally protected form of free speech
The individual freedoms in the Bill of Rights were extended by the Fourteenth Amendment to include protection from deprivation of due process rights by
actions of state and local governments
When can police legally begin their interrogation of a suspect?
after the suspect has been warned that his or her words can be used as evidence
The inevitable discovery exception
allows the use of evidence that would have been discovered regardless by other means or through other forms of evidence
If a person yells "fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire, and people are hurt in the ensuing panic, that individual abused his freedom of speech according to the doctrine of
clear and present danger
The Lemon test is designed to
ensure the secular nature of a government action or policy
The exclusionary rule states that
evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible in court
The establishment clause prohibits government from
favoring one religion over another or supporting religion over no religion
The freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and petition are found in
first amendment