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Chapter 4

Chapter 4. Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual Rights. 4-2. Thomas Jefferson. A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. 4-3. Freedom of Expression.

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Chapter 4

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  1. Chapter 4 Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual Rights

  2. 4-2 Thomas Jefferson A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  3. 4-3 Freedom of Expression • The Early Period: The Uncertain Status of the Right of Free Expression • Clear-and-Present-Danger test • The Modern Period: Protecting Free Expression • Free Speech and Assembly • Press Freedom and Prior Restraint

  4. 4-4 Freedom of Expression • Free Expression and State Governments • Due Process clause • The Fourteenth Amendment and Selective Incorporation • Gitlow v. New York (1925) • Limiting the Authority of States to Restrict Expression • Imminent lawless action

  5. 4-5 Freedom of Expression • Libel and Slander • Libel • Slander • Obscenity • Roth v. United States (1957) • Miller v. California (1973) • Reno v. ACLU (1997) • Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004)

  6. 4-6 Freedom of Religion • The Establishment Clause • Engel v. Vitale (1962) • Locke v. Davey (2004) • The Free-Exercise Clause • Free to believe, not always free to act • Courts try to balance free-exercise and establishment clauses

  7. 4-7 The Right of Privacy • Abortion • Roe v. Wade (1973) • Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) • Sexual Relations Among Consenting Adults • Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003) • The Continuing Issue of Privacy Rights

  8. 4-8 Rights of Persons Accused of Crimes • Procedural due process • The Fourth Amendment • The Fifth Amendment • The Sixth Amendment • The Eighth Amendment

  9. 4-9 Rights of Persons Accused of Crimes • Selective Incorporation of Procedural Rights • Miranda v. Arizona (1966) • Missouri v. Siebert (2004) • Search and Seizure • The Exclusionary Rule • Habeas Corpus Appeals

  10. 4-10 Crime, Punishment, and Police Practices • Racial Profiling • Atkins v. Virginia (2002) • Ring v. Arizona (2002) • Blakely v. Washington (2004)

  11. 4-11 Rights and the War on Terrorism • Detention of Enemy Combatants • Prisoners captured in Afghanistan • Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) • Surveillance of Suspected Terrorists • The Courts and a Free Society

  12. 4-12 States in the Nation

  13. 4-13 States in the Nation

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