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A standard extended in the 1925 case Gitlow v. New York whereby any speech that has the likelihood of inciting crime or disturbing the public peace can be silenced.

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A standard extended in the 1925 case Gitlow v. New York whereby any speech that has the likelihood of inciting crime or disturbing the public peace can be silenced.

Bad tendency test

Constitutionally established guarantees that protect citizens, opinions, and property against arbitrary government interference.

Civil liberties

A standard established in the 1919 Supreme Court Schenck v. U.S. whereby the government may silence speech or expression when there is a clear and present danger that this speech will bring about some harm that the government has the power to prevent.

Clear and present Danger test

A standard established in the 1951 case Dennis v. U.S. whereby the government could suppress speech to avoid grave danger even if the probability of the dangerous result was relatively remote; replaced by the imminent lawless action (incitement) test in 1969.

Clear and probable danger

Advertising statements, which that describe products.

Commercial speech

A theory of the creation of the earth and humankind that is based on a literal interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis.

Creationism

Safeguards for those accused of crime; these rights constrain government conduct in investigating crimes, trying cases, and punishing offenders.

Criminal due process rights

The trying of a person again for the same crime that he or she has been cleared of in court; barred by the Fifth Amendment.

Double jeopardy

The legal safeguards that prevent the government from arbitrarily depriving citizens of life, liberty, or property; guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Due process

The First Amendment clause that bars the government from passing any law “respecting an establishment of religion”; often interpreted as a separation of church and state but this is increasingly challenged.

Establishment Clause

The criminal procedural rule stating that evidence obtained illegally cannot be used in a trial.

Exclusionary rule

Speech that is likely to bring about public disorder or chaos; the Supreme Court has held that this speech may be banned in public places to ensure the preservation of public order.

Fighting words

The First Amendment clause prohibiting the government from enacting laws prohibiting an individual’s practice of his or her religion; often in contention with the establishment clause.

Free exercise clause

An ancient right that protects an individual in custody from being held without the right to be heard in a court of law.

HAbeas corpus

A standard established in the 1969 Brandenburg vs Ohio case whereby speech is restricted only if it goes beyond mere advocacy, or words, to create a high likelihood of immediate disorder or lawlessness

Imminent Lawlesss action test

The theory that the apparent design in the universe and in living things is the product of an intelligent cause rather than of an undirected process such as natural selection; its primary proponents believe that the designer is God and seek to redefine science to accept supernatural explanations.

Intelligent design

A three-part test established by the Supreme Court in the 1971 case Lemon v. Kurtzman to determine whether government aid to parochial schools is constitutional; the test is also applied to other cases involving the establishment clause.

Lemon test

False written statements about others that harm their reputation.

Libel

A concept at the core of the freedoms of expression and press, based on the belief that true and free political discourse depends on a free and unrestrained discussion of ideas.

Marketplace of ideas

A criminal procedural rule, established in the 1966 case Miranda v. Arizona, requiring police to inform criminal suspects, on their arrest, of their legal rights, such as the right to remain silent and the right to counsel; these warnings must be read to suspects before interrogation.

Miranda rights

Indecent or offensive speech or expression.

Obscenity

A form of censorship by the government whereby it blocks the publication of news stories viewed as libelous or harmful.

Prior restraint

The right of an individual to be left alone and to make decisions freely, without the interference of others.

Right to privacy