AP GOV: Unit 3 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

• Civil rights: protections from discrimination based on gender, race, or religion, equal protection

  Civil liberties: due process clause, protect rights from government

  Selective incorporation: incorporating Bill of Rights by case to case basis as fundamental to liberty
• Freedom of Speech: imminent danger (clear and present), no slander, libel, obscenity, incite violence, cant disrupt education
• Freedom of Press: prior restraint (very limited, restrict article from being published)

  • Miller v. California: 3 part obscenity test, libel/slander/obscenity
• Freedom of petition
• Freedom of assembly: peaceful nondisruptive association, protests

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Freedom of Religion: Establishment Clause= government cant establish a national religion, Free Exercise Clause= government cant prevent you from practicing a valid religion
• De facto segregation: based on factors

  De jure segregation: by law
• REVIEW AMENDMENTS
• Strict scrutiny: compelling government interest, narrowly tailored, necessary to achieve purpose

  Rational basis: legitimate, rational related

  Intermediate: genuine important, substantially related