Unit 6 Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties are?

• unwritten but widely agreed upon

• rights to vote and participate in American democracy

• laws that provide and set limits on ones freedoms

• individual legal and constitutional protections against the government

American civil liberties are found in the?

• Preamble

• Declaration of Independence

• Statute of Religious Freedom

• Bill of Rights

The free exercise of the 1st Amendment clause holds that people have the right to?

• practice religion as they choose

• express themselves through speech as they choose

• evade taxes if they can run fast

• donate money to any political campaign they choose

This is your right to fair and equal treatment (usually in reference to the judicial system).

• right to privacy

• free speech

• suffrage

• due process

Slander is spoken from?

• clear and present danger

• fighting words

• defamation of character

• seditious speech

______ is written lies about a person that damages his/her reputation.

• censorship

• slander

• libel

• bail

Which clause prevents the national government from sanctioning an official religion?

• Establishment

• free exercise

• full faith and credit

• equal protection

The main purposes of the Patriot Act is to?

• guard nation against terrorism

• protect against unlawful searches

• undo the probable cause guarantee

• show appreciation for acts of patriotism

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is intended to prevent?

• a prisoner from being tried twice for the same crime twice

• protect against unlawful searches

• the accused form being unjustly arrested and imprisoned without cause

• defendants from being denied a lawyer in court

The incorporation doctrine involves?

• the application of the Bill of Rights to the states

• the governments power to regulate corporations

• the extension of judicial review to the state courts

• the interpretation of the commerce clause