| A | B |
|---|
| Bill of Rights | first ten amendments to Constitution |
| civil liberties | guarentees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property from arbitrary acts of gov't: includes freedom of speech and religion |
| civil rights | positive acts od gov't that seek to make constitutional guarentees a reality for all |
| alien | non-citizen: foreign born resident |
| due process clause | part of 14th amendmentwhich guarentees that no state deny basic rights to people |
| process of incorporation | process of incorporating or including most of the guarentees in Bill of Rights into 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| establishment clause | separates Church and State |
| parochial | church-related |
| free-exercise clause | 2nd part of the constitutional guarentees of religious freedom, which guarentees to each person right to believe what they want |
| libel | false and malicious use of PRINTED words |
| slander | false or malicious use of SPOKEN words |
| sedition | crime of attemppting to overthrow the gov't by force |
| seditious speech | advocating or urging an attempt to overthrow the gov't by force or dirupt its activities with violence |
| prior restraint | the gov't CANNOT CURB IDEAS before they are expressed |
| sheild law | a law which gives reporters some protection against having to name their sources or reveal confidential info in trial |
| symbolic speech | expression by conduct; communicating by facial expressions, body language, carrying a sign, wearing an armband |
| picketing | patrolling of a business site by workers who are on strike |
| assemble | to gather w/ one another to express views on public matters |
| content neutral | gov't may not regulate assemblieson the basis of what might be said |
| right of association | right to associate with others to promote political, economic, and other social causes |
