PLST 320 Quiz The First Amendment
PLST 320 Quiz The First Amendment and Individual Liberties
- Cross burning is not protected by the First Amendment.
- A suspect class is a classification that includes
- Purposeful discrimination is required under the
- A juvenile does not have a right to
- A law banning the burning of a draft card
- Advertising is protected by the First Amendment unless it is false and misleading.
- The Court in Plessy v. Ferguson
- Regulation of speech in a public forum cannot discriminate based on the content of the speech.
- Expression that incites illegal action
- The Supreme Court has held that it is unconstitutional for students to pray at school.
- The voluntary recitation of a prayer by children in public schools at the beginning of each day has been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
- A school cannot censor speech of its students in school if the government could not censor similar speech outside the school.
- All aspects of a criminal case, beginning with the police investigation, must comply with procedural due process.
- Corporations have no rights under the Due Process Clause
- The Supreme Court found that reimbursing the parents of Catholic school students for the cost of busing their children to school
- Strict scrutiny requires a “legitimate” governmental interest for the law, as opposed to the “compelling” government interest required under the rational basis test.
- The text of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
- The fairness doctrine
- The English law of seditious libel made it a crime
- Giving tax exemptions to religious institutions is unconstitutional because it is a form of state-sponsored religion.
- Procedural due process has little application to civil cases.
- When ruling on a law that banned virtual child pornography, the Supreme Court
- “One person, one vote” does not occur when the number of elected officials from different districts or geographical areas is not in proportion to the
- A law targets a suspect class when it classifies a group based on race, ethnicity, or national origin.
- A Washington, D.C. public school was prohibited from segregation because of
- Government aid to parochial school children is likely to be held unconstitutional
- The rational basis test for evaluating state laws
- When a law does not target a suspect or quasi-suspect class or affect a fundamental right, the Court applies the rational basis test.
- A tax exemption available only to a religious organization is unconstitutional.
- According to the Supreme Court, under some circumstances Congress has the authority to regulate speech.