The Study Essay

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Alien - Foreign-born resident, or non citizen.



Assemble - To gather with one another in order to express views on public matters.



Civil libel -The guarantees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property from the arbitrary acts of government, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Civil rights - A term used for those positives acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people, e.g.,prohibitions of discrimination.



Content neutral - The government may not regulate assemblies on the basis on on what might be said.



Due Process Clause - Part of the 14 which guarantees that no state denies basic right to its people.



Establishment Clause - Separates church and government.



Free Exercise Clause - The second part of the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom, which guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or she choose to believe in matter of religious.



Libel - False and malicious use of printed words



Parochial - Church-related, as in a parochial school



Prior restraint - The government cannot curd ideas before they are expressed



Seditious Speech - The advocating, or urging, of an attempt to overthrow the government by force, or to disrupt its lawful activities with violence



Shield laws - A law which gives reporters some protection against having to disclose their sources or reveal other confidential information in legal proceedings



Slander - False and malicious use of spoken words.



Symbolic Speech - Expression by conduct; communicating ideas through facial expressions; body language, or by carrying a sign or wearing an armband

1. Guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or she choose to believe in matters of religion.
2. That even “miscreant purveyors of scandal” and anti-Semitism enjoy this constitutional protection. 3. It