Chapter 13: First Amendment Freedoms
I. Constitutional Rights
A. Human Rights
B. Liberty
C. Bill of Rights
D. States and the Bill of Rights
II. 14th Amendment
A. Incorporation
B. Expansion of Rights
C. Due Process
D. Gitlow v. New York
E. Importance of Incorporation
F. Nationalization
III. Establishment Clause
A. Language
B. History
C. Jefferson’s “High Wall”
D. Religion in Public Life
IV. Religion in Schools
A. Parochial v. Secular Schools
B. Everson V. Board of Ed Case
C. State Aid
1. Lemon Test/ 3 Prongs
D. Release Time
E. Engel v. Vitale
F. Other Prayer Cases
1. Santa Fe Case
G. Equal Access Act
H. Evolution and Creationism
I. Other Issues
V. Free Exercise Clause
A. Language
B. Polygomy
1. Reynolds Case
C. Vaccines
1. Smith Case
D. Wisconsin v. Yoder
E. Pledge and Flag Salute Cases
VI. Free Speech
A. Importance
B. Pure Speech
C. Symbolic Speech
D. 3 Part Test
VII. Regulating Speech
A. Balancing Act
B. Seditious Speech
C. Schneck Case
D. Clear and Present Danger
E. Dad tendency Doctrine
F. Preferred Position Doctrine
G. Sedition Laws
VIII. Unprotected Speech
A. Defamatory Speech
B. Slander v. Libel
C. NY Times v. Sullivan
D. “Fighting Words”
IX. Speech in Schools
A. Tinker
B. Bethel
C. Hazelwood
X. Free Press Issues
A. Prior Restraint
B. Near v. Minnesota
C. NY Times v. US
D. Shield Laws
XI. Free Press and Technology
A. Radio & TV
B. FCC
C. Turner Broadcasting V. FCC
D. US v. Playboy
E. Motion Pictures
F. Email and Internet
G. Obscenity
H. Advertising
XII. Freedom of Assembly
A. Application
B. Dejonge v. Oregon
C. Public Property
D. Cox v. New Hampshire
E. Additional Limits
F. Assembly and Property Rights
XIII. Public Assembly and Disorder
A. Nazis in Skokie
B. Heckler’s Veto
C. Feiner v. New York
D. Gregory v. City of Chicago
E. Protecting Labor Picketing
XIV . Freedom of Association
A. Dejonge v. Oregon
B. Whitney v. California
C. Clear and Present Danger Doctrine