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17 Cards in this Set
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State action |
The requirement that government or its agents must be involved in order for the Constitution or Bill of Rights to apply |
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Incorporation |
Process by which the Supreme Court applied the Bill of Rights to the states via the 14th |
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Sedition |
The act of inciting people to change the government |
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Pure speech |
Speech that involves only spoken words without actions |
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Speech Plus |
Speech that combines spoken words with actions such as demonstrations and picketing |
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Symbolic speech |
Actions that are themselves a message without spoken words; also known as "expressive conduct" |
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Public forum |
A place such as a public park or street that is normally open to First Amendment activities |
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Obscenity |
Speech or action that portrays sex or nudity contrary to society's standards of decency |
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Defamation |
Hurting a person's reputation by spreading falsehoods |
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Slander |
defamation using spoken words |
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Libel |
Defamation using written words |
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Fighting words |
Abusive and insulting comments delivered face-to-face to a specific individual |
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Censorship |
Government control of free expression |
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Seditious libel |
Printing criticism of the government |
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Prior restraint |
Censoring a work before it is published |
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Actual malice |
Knowledge that a statement is false a reckless disregarding of whether it is false |
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Heckler's veto |
Ability of hostile bystander to end a peaceful assembly |
