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