American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2014-2015

76 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM Imminent Lawless Action Test The current standard established by the Supreme Court for evaluat ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 77 Defamation of Character Wrongfully hurting a person’s good reputation. Slander The public utte ...

78 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM or within the hearing of, a person other than the defamed party. If one person calls another d ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 79 Libel A written defamation of a person’s character, reputation, business, or property rights. ...

80 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM Gag Order An order issued by a judge restricting the publication of news about a trial or a pr ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 81 Radio and television broadcasting has the least First Amendment protection. In 1934, the natio ...

82 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM Court twice struck down laws that required a woman who wished to have an abortion to undergo c ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 83 “Partial-birth” Abortion. In 2000, the Supreme Court again addressed the abor- tion issue dire ...

84 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM Writ of Habeas Corpus Habeas corpus means, literally, “you have the body.” A writ of habeas co ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 85 Exclusionary Rule A judicial policy prohibiting the admission at trial of illegally seized evi ...

86 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and provides that a j ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 87 Now a person under suspicion can be monitored electronically regardless of location or the tec ...

88 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM The Fourteenth Amendment specifies that all persons (as opposed to all citizens) shall enjoy “ ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 89 Our civil liberties include numerous provisions, many of them listed in the Bill of Rights, th ...

90 PART oNE • THE AMERiCAN sYsTEM chaptersummary 1 Originally, the Bill of Rights limited only the power of the national governm ...

CHAPTER FouR • CiviL LibERTiEs 91 Access CourseMate at http://www.cengagebrain.com for additional study tools: practice quizzes, ...

92 Civil Rights Generally, all rights rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Alabama ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 93 that had significant consequences for civil rights in America: the civil rights movement of the 1 ...

94 PART onE • THE AmERiCAn sYsTEm any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor de ...

CHAPTER FivE • Civil RigHTs 95 Separate-but-Equal Doctrine The doctrine holding that separate-but-equal facilities do not violat ...