MAGRUDERS GOVERNMENT
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- Civil Rights
- The terms used for those positive acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees
- Civil Liberties
- the guarantee of safety of persons, opinions, and property from arbitrary acts of government. Incl fredom of speech and religion
- Guarantee of Association
- guarantees freedom of assembly and petition. The right to associate with others to promote for political, social and enconomic reasons
- Treason
- Beatrayal of one country, constitution
- Slander
- False and Malicious use of words
- Free Exercise Clause
- The part of the constitution that gaurantee religious freedom
- Libel
- False and malicious use of written words
- Symbolic speech
- Expression of conduct, communicating ideas throught facial expression, body language
- Alien
- A person who is not a citizen
- Bill of Rights
- The first ten amendments to the constitution
- Picketing
- Walking a business sight where workers are on strike
- Due process Clause
- Part of the 14th amendment that gaurantees no state deny basic rights to it's people
- Establishment Clause
- Separates church and state
- Sedition
- The crime of attempting to overthrow the government
- Sheild laws
- A law which gives reporters some protection of having to give up their source, or confidential information
- Content Neutral
- A government may not regulate assemblies based on what might be said
- Assemble
- To gather with another to discuss views on a public matter
- Seditious Speech
- To advocate to attempt to overthow the government
- Prior restraint
- The government cannot curb and idea before they are expressed
- Parochial
- Church related; as in a parochial school