PS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Due Process Clause, Establishment Clause, Lemon V. Kurtzman

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: All

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Textbook: civil liberties: basic political freedoms that protect citizens from governmental abuses of power, civil war amendments: the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the. It benefits from many of the same constitutional protections of verbal speech: hate speech: expression that is offensive or abusive, particularly in terms of race, gender, or sexual orientation. These can be regulated by the government but are often difficult to define: slander and libel: spoken false statements (slander) and written false statements (libel) that damage a person"s reputation. Both can be regulated by the government but are often difficult to distinguish from permissible speech: commercial speech: public expression with the aim of making a profit. The constitution guarantees that the government cannot take away a person"s. The is prevented by the 5th amendment: privacy rights: liberties protected by several amendments in the bill of.