LE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hate Speech, Symbolic Speech, Establishment Clause

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LE 101
• Professor: Prof Brandt

Document Summary

A body of principles and rules either explicitly stated in, or inferred from, the u. s. The first ten amendments to the us constitution. Put into place by the founding fathers to protect individual rights from government overreaching. A term used to include a group of first amendment provisions designed to protect people"s ability to inform and influence others. Speech, press, association, peaceable assembly, petition the governments. Import to emphasize the first amendment rights of free expression are not absolute; balancing test. Balancing tests in the context of interpreting the first amendment: a group of tests or standard that have been developed for determining whether the first. Amendment prohibits government actions based on balancing the benefits of free expression against other legitimate and important government interests. Symbolic speech - non-verbal action transmitting a point of view. Obscene materials - no constitutional protections, but what is "obscene?: hate speech - sometimes protected.