Exam 14: Politics and Personal Liberty

Prior restraint is a constitutional doctrine that prevents the government from prohibiting speech or publication __________ the fact.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 allows the government to jail detainees without an opportunity to file which of the following?

In matters of religion,the Free Exercise Clause protects individuals from which of the following?

In Roth v.U.S.,the U.S.Supreme Court held that material must be utterly without social importance in order to be considered __________.

The 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)allows warrantless surveillance of which of the following?

The Supreme Court has used incorporation to __________ the rights of states.

The free exercise clause guarantees that the government will not interfere with the practice of religion.

According to the authors of the Declaration of Independence,individual liberty derives from what?

Which of the following rights has the Supreme Court found to be one of the penumbra of unstated liberties linked to explicitly stated rights?

__________ rights include the right to remain silent.

Convicted criminals whose sentences increase during their prison term due to a change in the law have been illegally subjected to what kind of law?

The double jeopardy clause prevents an individual who is acquitted of a crime from which of the following?

In recent years,the Supreme Court has __________ constraints on aid to parochial schools and voucher programs.

How have the courts traditionally defined libel?

Picketing is an example of the right to __________.

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 tried to ban Internet pornography,but the Supreme Court held the act unconstitutional on what grounds?

Incorporation makes the protections from the Bill of Rights applicable to the states through which of the following amendments?

Which test examines whether a particular law constitutes "establishment" of religion and thus violates the 1st Amendment?

Commercial speech is constitutionally protected.

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