FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV. CHAPTER 4

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV. CHAPTER 4

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Question 1: Zurcher V. Stanford Daily

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A 1978 SC decision holding that a proper search warrant could be applied to a newspaper as well as to anyone else without necessarily violating the 1st Ammendment right to freedom of the press. case involved a student government newspaper at Stanford beli

Question 2: McCleskey v Kemp

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1987 SC decision that upheld the constitutionality of the death penatly against charges that it violated the 14th Amm. nc minority defendents wer more likely to receive death pen.

Question 3: Hamdan v Rumsfeld

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SC held that the procedures Pres. Bush had approved for trying prisoners at Gitmo lacked congressional authoroization and violated Uniform Code of Mil Justice.

Question 4: Libel and Slander

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libel-publication of false or malicious statements that damage someone's reputation slander-spoken defamation whereas libel is written

Question 5: Fourteenth Amendent

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States can't make or enforce a law abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive anyone of life, liberty or property without due process; or deny anyone in jurisdiction equal protections of the laws.

Question 6: Hustler Magazine v Falwell

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SC ruled in favor of magazine in that the press can go pretty far to parody or lampoon a public figure.

Question 7: Zelman V. Simmons-Harris

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The 2002 SCOTUS decision that upheld a state providing families with vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools.

Question 8: probable cause

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the situation occurring when the police have reason to beliee that a person should be arrested. In making the arrest, police are allowed legally to search for and seie incriminating evidenc

Question 9: Miranda v Arizona

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1966 SC decision that sets guidelines for police questioning of accused persons to protect them against self incrimination and to protect their right to counsel

Question 10: commercial speech

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communication in the form of advertising. It can be restricted more than many other types of speech but has been receiving increased protection from the SC

Question 11: Employment Division V. Smith

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SCOTUS case where the court discarded its previous requirement for a compelling interest before a government could even indirectly limit or prohibit religious practices.

Question 12: Prior Restraint

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A government preventing material form being published.

Question 13: DC v Hiller and McDonald v Chicago

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2nd Ammendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes such as self defense within the home.

Question 14: Roth v US

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1957 SC decision ruling that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press

Question 15: Engel V. Vitale

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The 1962 SCOTUS decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.

Question 16: Branzburg v. Hayes

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Some states have passed shield laws to protect reporters from having to give up their notes or sources.In the absence of shield laws the right of a fair trial preempts the reporter's right to protect sources according to this case.

Question 17: Yates V. US and Brandonburg v. Ohio

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Smith Act got a more narrow interpretation and in later years these acts actually made it permissible to advocate for the violent overthrow of the government in the abstract but not to actually incite anyone to lawless action

Question 18: Smith Act

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It forbade advocating the violent overthrow of the American government. McCarthy used this to persecute people they thought were subversive.

Question 19: Mapp v Ohio

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1961 SC decision ruling that the 4th amendment's protect ionagainst unreasonale searches and seizures must be extended to the states as well as to the fed gov

Question 20: Hammdi v Rumsfeld

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right to challenge their detention before a judge or other neutral decision maker

Question 21: Symbolic speech

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nonverbal communication such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. SC has accorded some symbolic speech protection under 1st Amm

Question 22: Gideon v Wainwright

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anyone accused o a felony where imprisonment may be imposed however poor has a right to a lawyer

Question 23: New York Times v Sullivan

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1964 case established the guidelines for determining whether public officials and public figures could win damage suits for libel. To do so individuals must prove that the defamatory statements were made with actual malice and reckless disregard for truth

Question 24: Doctrine of Incorporation

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Legal concept under which the SCOTUS has nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.