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What is Reno v American Civil Liberties Union?
This court case was the first major Supreme Court case ruling on the regulations of materials distributed through the internet.
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What is the First Amendment?
This Amendment grants the freedom of speech.
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What is the types of free speech?
Pure speech, Speech-Plus, & Symbolic speech
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What is the Critical Race Theory?
The movement that challenges the ability of conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic justice and specifically calls for legal approaches that take into consideration race as a nexus of American life.
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What is Brandenburg v Ohio?
This court ase held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".
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Who is Congress?
This governing body cannot make laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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What is pure speech?
Written or spoken words that express thoughts, and ideas that the government cannot limit.
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Who is Derrick Bell?
Harvard Law School professor who developed the CRT.
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What is Packingham v North Carolina?
This court case decided that a statute that prohibited sex offenders from accessing social media websites violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Who is the Supreme Court?
Constitutionality is decided by this body.
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What is symbolic speech?
Describes actions that purposefully and discernibly convey a particular message or statement to those viewing it.
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What is minority and majority groups?
The CRT originally focused on race, but expanded to characterize interactions between...
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What is Tinker v Des Moines?
This landmark court case determined that the First Amendment applied to public schools and the censoring of speech could only be done if education was disrupted.
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When was 1791?
The year in which The Freedom of Speech was established.
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What is Speech-Plus?
A form of expression in which behavior is used by itself or in coordination with written or spoken words to convey an idea or message.
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What is hate speech?
Critical Race Theorists have suggested laws to punish this type of speech.
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What is Morse v Frederick?
This case held that hat the First Amendment does not prevent educators from suppressing, at or across the street from a school-supervised event, student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.”
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What is Section II?
This section of Article III of the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the right to decide on Constitutionality.
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What are the types of speech not protected by the First Amendment.
Obscenity
Fighting words Defamation (including libel and slander) Child pornography Perjury Blackmail Incitement to imminent lawless action True threats Solicitations to commit crimes |
Who is Richard Delgado?
This scholar believed that power relationships might make it difficult or impossible for members of socially disempowered groups to respond to certain types of speech.
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