Civil Liberties/civil rights

Question 1

Concept of civil liberties?

Answer 1

Those fundamental rights that ensure the protection of an individual’s freedoms against government interference

Question 2

What are the Four Main Rights?

Answer 2

1) Freedom of Speech and the Press
2) Freedom of Religion
3) Rights of the Accused
4) Right of Privacy

Question 3

Bill of Rights Lie Dormant?

Answer 3

The Bill of Rights originally protected citizens from interference only from the national government, but not the state governments.

Question 4

Barron v. Baltimore (1833)*

Answer 4

• 5th Amendment protects against private property being taken by government without just compensation
• Supreme Court ruled that states were limited in their actions toward citizens only by their own constitutions

Question 5

(Bill of Rights Given Life) 14th Amendment (1868)?

Answer 5

The protection against government interference includes interference from state governments

Question 6

What is the Due Process Clause?

Answer 6

nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Question 7

A Delicate Balance?

Answer 7

Issues surrounding civil liberties are matters of balance: the rights of the individual balanced against the rights of society
- individual speech versus public safety
- individual worship versus health of children

Question 8

Restricted Speech consist of?

Answer 8

Schenck v. U.S. (1919): Clear & Present Danger(1)
*Supreme court ruled against persons civil liberty in favor of the government

Question 9

Advertising is?

Answer 9

or other speech made for business purposes may be regulated
- Knowing false information that harms another person or company is illegal

Question 10

In written form it is what?

Answer 10

It is Libel
- a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation;

Question 11

In verbal form it is what?

Answer 11

It is Defamation
-the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.

Question 12

Expanded Speech? New York Times v. U.S. (1971): Prior Restraint

Answer 12

*Supreme court ruled for persons civil liberty against the government

Question 13

Speech as a Form of Protest? Johnson v. Texas (1989)

Answer 13

• ruled that flag burning is a constitutionally protected form of speech
• there is a difference between desecration of a flag and of a national monument

Question 14

Civil Liberties?

Answer 14

Those fundamental rights that ensure the protection of an individual’s freedoms against government interference
Guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the constitution (Bill of rights)

Question 15

Civil rights?

Answer 15

Treated fairly and receive equal protection under the law.
14th* amendment
- “due process” “equal protection”
- “No state shall deny any person equal protection”

Question 16

It’s Illegal to sue against what categories?

Answer 16

sex, race/ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and national origin

Question 17

Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 17

Required businesses(most white) and places of public accommodations(hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, parks) to segregate black and white customers.

Question 18

*Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Answer 18

“Separate but equal”