Question

List the rights described in the First Amendment. What cases were important to freedom of speech? What is the difference between slander and libel? Which is considered to be more serious? How does the Fourteenth Amendment define a U.S. citizen? Describe the protections offered by the Fourth Amendment.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Rights describe in first Amendment

a. Freedom of religion

b. Freedom of speech

c. Freedom of expression

d. Freedom of press

e. Freedom of petition

f. Freedom of peaceful assembly

Explanation:

Label: this is a written defamatory comment about an individual.

Slander: This is an oral defamatory comments about a person.

Libel is more serious because it is tangible cannot be denied unlike slander.

3. The fourteenth amendment gave full citizenship to Black Americans And other races who had been born or naturalized in America.

4. Fourth amendment protected people people from unlawful searches and seizures. This mean’t that the police couldn’t search you or your house without a warrant or probable cause. Stated in the Constitution.

5. Cases important to freedom of speech a. Schenck v. United States (1919) Freedom of speech could be controlled during war.

b. Debs v. United States (1919)

c. Gitlow v. New York (1925)

d. United States v. O'Brien (1968)

e. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

f. Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

g. Cohen v. California (1971)

h. Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)