1. Unalienable
Rights
Freedom of
Religion
Freedom of
Speech &
Press
CIVIL LIBERTIES:
FIRST AMENDMENT
FREEDOMS

3.  Civil Liberties
 Civil Rights
CIVIL LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS

4. LIMITS ON RIGHTS

5.  Bill of Rights restricts the Federal gov’t
 14th Amendment’s “due process clause” makes it apply to
states
FEDERALISM & THE 14TH AMENDMENT

6.  Establishment Clause
 Free Exercise Clause
FREEDOM OF RELIGION

7.  How high is this “wall of separation”?
SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE

8.  Public schools cannot sponsor religious exercises
 Public posting of 10 Commandments
 “moment of silence”
 Prayer as part of public school graduation
 Student-led prayer at football game
RELIGION & EDUCATION
-- Student-led religious groups can meet in the same terms as other student
organizations
-- Religious schools can get aid, as long as the money does not go to religious
activities

9.  “freedom for the thought that we hate,” – Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Limits
 Libel
 Slander
 Seditious speech
FREE SPEECH & PRESS

10. FLAG BURNING

11. Due Process
Freedom &
Security of the
Person
Rights of the
Accussed
Punishment
CIVIL LIBERTIES:
PROTECTING
INDIVIDUAL
RIGHTS

12. DUE PROCESS

13.  State can protect and promote public health, safety, morals,
and general welfare.
 What does this look like?
POLICE POWER

14.  Do you have a right to privacy?
 “right to be free, except in very limited circumstances, from
unwanted governmental intrusions into one’s privacy.”
 Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
 14th Amendment
 Roe v. Wade: privacy “encompasses a woman’s decision
whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
 Why is privacy important today?
PRIVACY

15. 4TH AMENDMENT

16.  “in plain view”
 “informational roadblocks”
 When making a lawful arrest
 “movable scene of a crime”
NO WARRANT NEEDED

17.  Evidence gathered illegally cannot be used
Exceptions
 “inevitable discovery”
 “good faith”
 “honest mistake”
EXCLUSIONARY RULE

18.  A violation of the 4th Amendment?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9iwS3rTvo
DRUG TESTING

19.  writ of habeas corpus
 bill of attainder
 Ex post facto laws
 Grand jury
 Double jeopardy
 Speedy and public trials
 Trial by jury
 Right to an adequate defense
 Self-incrimination
RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED