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What kinds of speech has the Court refused to protect under the First Amendment?
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Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press
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What other groups have turned to the Supreme Court to protect their Civil Rights?
Bill of Rights and The Fourteenth Amendment.
Does Flag Burning Violate the First Amendment?
Yes, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Flag burning is a protected form of speech.
Facts of the case of gitlow v. New York?
Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had extended the reach of certain limitations on federal government authority set forth in the First Amendment-specifically the provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press-to the governments of the individual states. It was one of a series of Supreme Court cases that defined the scope of the First Amendment's protection of free speech and established the standard to which a state or the federal government would be held when it criminalized speech or writing.
What does Admendment 5 of the US Constitution guarantee or protect?
Your right to not testify in court against yourself. If your testimony will incriminate you, or find you guilty, you have the right to take the fifth amendment and choose not testify.
Which Amendment was interpreted by the Supreme Court to establish its authority to determine if a state was violating the rights of citizens contained in the Bill of Rights?
The US Supreme Court has used the Fourteenth Amendment, under the Due Process Clause and Equal Protect Clause, to selectively incorporate the Bill of Rights to the states.For more information on selective incorporation, see Related Questions, below.
What does the six amendment prohibit?
nothing. it gives you a freedom of speech in court. or somthing like that.
Are there any major court cases concerning the 13th amendment?
yes there were some i believe.some people refused to give up slavery.so the decided to go to court
What are the different kinds of speech that the Supreme Court has identified?
The Supreme Court has identified three types of speech: fully protected speech, which includes political or artistic expression and is protected by the First Amendment; partially protected speech, which includes commercial speech and is subject to certain restrictions; and unprotected speech, such as obscenity, defamation, and speech that incites violence, which is not protected by the First Amendment.
What other groups have turned to the Supreme Court to protect their Civil Rights?
Bill of Rights and The Fourteenth Amendment.
What other groups have turned to the Supreme Court to protect their civil right?
Bill of Rights and The Fourteenth Amendment.
In 2008 the Court interpreted the 2nd Amendment to say that people should?
be allowed to protect themselves in their homes
Although the first amendment guarantees the right of free speech the supreme court has forbidden?
lebel and slander(NovaNet)
Which contitutional amendment has enabled the Supreme Court to protect the civil liberties contained in the Bill of Rights from being abridged by state and local officials?
first amendment
Can a citizen plead the fifth to protect their free speech.?
No. The two are separate ideas. The 5th protects a person from testifying against themselves in court. Freedom of speech is a basic right and is not only speech but written materials and now Internet. There are boundaries to freedom of speech. An example is you can't yell fire in a theater when there is no fire or threaten people.
What policy issue is the underlying theme of the flag-burning debate?
It isn’t policy, but freedom of speech and the first amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that burning a flag is freedom of speech.
Which of these is not included in the First Amendment?
Court does not afford commercial speech full protection under the First Amendment.
A woman accused of a crime is testifying in court. How does the fifth amendment protect her?
She is not required to answer questions that would force her to confess to a crime.
