Exam 15: Civil Liberties: the Struggle for Freedom

What do proponents of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility call its prisoners?

In 1969, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan member by ruling that the government could only restrict speech that __________.

The USA Patriot Act provides the government with methods for circumventing restrictions on __________.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has struggled to address __________ on the Internet in a First Amendment context.

Today, the United States is the only developed democracy to use which of the following to punish crime?

Under Roe v. Wade, a woman could legally seek an abortion freely during her __________ trimester.

The USA Patriot Act enhances the government's ability to do which of the following?

Shouting profanities in public is an example of __________, which is not protected speech.

The Fourteenth Amendment suggests that the protections in the Bill of Rights could be interpreted as applying to the states.

An early effort to define __________ focused on whether the material had any serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Most developed countries use some form of the death penalty.

The Supreme Court has interpreted the Second Amendment to protect an individual's right to own __________.

Writs of habeas corpus are laws declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial.

Explain how Congress has historically attempted to suppress expression and speech during wartime.

A law prohibiting a newspaper from publishing a story exposing military secrets is an example of what kind of law?

In Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court identified which of the following as a freedom protected from state interference by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Government regulation of political speech is subject to ordinary scrutiny.

In the 1970s, the Supreme Court ended __________ because it was being imposed arbitrarily, but it was later reinstated.

The Supreme Court applied the Bill of Rights to the states through selective __________.

The Supreme Court briefly outlawed which of the following in the 1970s by asserting that it was being imposed in an arbitrary manner?