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UNIT 3 The Judiciary: Civil Liberties
Objectives
Chapter 19 Civil Liberties: The First Amendment
Section 1
The Unalienable Rights
pp.532-536
• Explain how Americans' commitment to freedom led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
• Understand the concepts of limited government and the relativity of individual rights.
• Show how federalism affects individual rights and how the 9th and 14th amendments provide
further guarantees of those rights.
Section 2
Freedom of Religion
pp. 537-545
• Examine why a free society cannot exist without free expression.
• Describe the "wall of separation between church and state" set up by the Establishment Clause
of the First Amendment.
• Summarize the Supreme Court rulings on religion and education, as well as other Establishment
Clause cases.
• Explain how the Supreme Court has interpreted and limited the Free Exercise Clause.
Section 3
Freedom of Speech and Press
pp. 546-553
• Explain the importance of the two-way free exchange of ideas.
• Summarize how the Supreme Court has limited seditious speech and obscenity.
• Examine the issues of prior restraint and press confidentiality, and describe the limits the Court
has placed on the media.
• Define symbolic speech and commercial speech, and describe the limits on their exercise.
Section 4
Freedom of Assembly and Petition
• Explain the Constitution's guarantees of assembly and petition.
pp. 555-558
• Summarize how the government can limit the time, place, and manner of assembly.
• Compare and contrast the freedom-of-assembly issues that arise on public versus private
property,
• Explore how the Supreme Court has interpreted freedom of association.
NAME________________________________________#_________
UNIT 3 The Judiciary: Civil Liberties: The First Amendment
TITLE: The Unalienable Rights
CH. 19 S. 1
PP. 532-536
• Explain how Americans' commitment to freedom led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
1. protect individual rights
2. stated this belief in both
the
a. Bill of Rights
b. civil liberties
c. civil rights
• Understand the concepts of limited government and the relativity of individual rights.
4. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because
5. limited government
6. the rights of others
7. the courts
8. citizens
9. aliens
a. aliens
• Show how federalism affects individual rights and how the 9th and 14th amendments provide further guarantees of those rights.
10. process of
incorporation
11. 14th Amendment
12. Due Process Clause
table p.536
13. Decisions 1925 - 1947
14. Decisions 1961 - 1969
15. 9th Amendment
16. unenumerated rights
1.
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UNIT 3 The Judiciary: Civil Liberties: The First Amendment
TITLE: Freedom of Religion
CH. 19 S. 2
PP. 537-545
• Describe the "wall of separation between church and state" set up by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Establishment Clause
Free Exercise Clause
Write the decisions for each of the cases listed below.
1. Pierce v. Society of
Sisters, 1925
parochial
“wall of separartion”
2. Everson v. Board of
Education, 1947
3. Zorach v. Clauson,
1952
released time
• Summarize the Supreme Court rulings on religion and education, as well as other Establishment Clause cases.
4. Engel v. Vitale, 1962
5. Abington School
District v.
Schempp, 1963
6. Wallace v. Jaffree,
1985
7. Santa Fe
Independent School
District v. Doe, 2000
Summary-Public
schools /individuals
8. Lemon v.
Kurtzman, 1971
Lemon Test
Equal Access Act,
1984
• Explain how the Supreme Court has interpreted and limited the Free Exercise Clause.
9. Lynch v.
Donnelly, 1984
10. Marsh v.
Chambers, 1983
11. Cantwell v.
Connecticut, 1940
Free exercise absolute
right
Free exercise limits
2.
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UNIT 3 The Judiciary: Civil Liberties: The First Amendment
TITLE: Freedom of Speech and Press
CH. 19 S. 3
PP. 546-553
• Explain the importance of the two-way free exchange of ideas.
2 guarantees
1st & 14th amendments
Expression not
protected
libel
slander
Use the chart to organize information about important Supreme Court rulings in cases involving freedom of speech and press.
Case
Ruling
• Summarize how the Supreme Court has limited seditious speech and obscenity.
Schenck v. United
States, 1919
sedition
seditious speech
Miller v. California,
1973
(1)
(2)
(3)
• Examine the issues of prior restraint and press confidentiality, and describe the limits the Court
prior restraint
New York Times v.
United States, 1971
Hazelwood S.D. v.
Kuhlmeier
shield law
Branzburg v.
Hayes, 1972
Burstyn v.
Wilson,1952
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v.
FCC, 1940
• Define symbolic speech and commercial speech, and describe the limits on their exercise.
Symbolic speech
picketing
commercial speech
Tinker v. Desmoines,1969
Thornhill v. Alabama,1940
Greater New Orleans
Broadcasting Association v.
United States 1999
3.
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UNIT 3 The Judiciary: Civil Liberties: The First Amendment
TITLE: Freedom of Assembly and Petition
CH. 19 S. 4
PP. 555-558
• Explain the Constitution's guarantees of assembly and petition.
1st Amendment guarantees
14th Amendment
Assemble
civil disobedience
• Summarize how the government can limit the time, place, and manner of assembly.
time-place-manner
Cox v. Louisiana, 1965
fairly administered
content neutral
• Compare and contrast the freedom-of-assembly issues that arise on public versus private property.
Most demonstrations take place
in public places because
a. advance notice
b. permits
Gregory v. Chicago, 1969
abortion clinics
Madsen v. Women’s Health
Services Inc., 1994
private property
Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 1972
State supreme courts may interpret State constitutions in such a way as to require
• Explore how the Supreme Court has interpreted freedom of association.
guarantee of association
NAACP v, Alabama, 1958
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale,
2000
4.