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1 Chapter 5 Civil Liberties

2 WHO GOVERNS? TO WHAT ENDS?
1. Why do the courts play so large a role in deciding what our civil liberties should be? TO WHAT ENDS? Why not display religious symbols on government property? If a person confesses to committing a crime, why is that confession sometimes not used in court? Does the Patriot Act reduce our liberties? Copyright © 2011 Cengage

3 Culture and Civil Liberties
Rights in Conflict Cultural Conflicts Applying the Bill of Rights to the States Due process of law Equal protection of the law Selective incorporation Copyright © 2011 Cengage

4 Figure 5.1 Annual Legal Immigration, 1850-2005
Replace with jpeg, p. 100 Note: Figures for 1989 and 1990 include persons granted permanent residence under the legalization program of the Immigration and Reform and Control Act of Source: Office of Immigration Statistics, 2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. (Washington, D.C.: Department of Homeland Security, 2006), p. 5. Copyright © 2011 Cengage

5 Interpreting and Applying the First Amendment
Freedom of expression Freedom of religion Prior restraint Clear-and-present danger test Copyright © 2011 Cengage

6 Women picketed in front of the White House, urging President Warren Harding to release political radicals arrested during his administration. p. 104 Bettmann/CORBIS Copyright © 2011 Cengage

7 What is Speech? Libel Obscenity Symbolic Speech
Tim Boyle/Newsmakers/Getty Images A Ku Klux Klan member uses his constitutional right to free speech to utter “white power” chants in Skokie, Illinois, p Copyright © 2011 Cengage

8 Copyright © 2011 Cengage

9 “Symbolic speech”: when young men burned their draft cards during the 1960s to protest the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court ruled that it was an illegal act for which they could be punished. p. 108 Bettmann/CORBIS Copyright © 2011 Cengage

10 Commercial and Youthful Speech
Corporations Interest Groups Youth Replace with jpeg, p. 109 p. 109 Copyright © 2011 Cengage

11 Church and State The Free Exercise Clause: Congress shall make no law prohibiting the “free exercise” of religion Establishment Clause: Congress shall make no law “respecting an establishment of religion” Wall of Separation: Court ruling that government cannot be involved with religion Copyright © 2011 Cengage

12 Copyright © 2011 Cengage

13 Crime and Due Process The Exclusionary Rule Search and Seizure
Copyright © 2011 Cengage

14 The Threat Operations Center at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Virginia. p. 114
JASON REED/Reuters/Landov Copyright © 2011 Cengage

15 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MEMORANDUM To: Rebecca Saikia, Supreme Court justice From: David Wilson, law clerk Subject: Patriot Act and libraries The Patriot Act allows the FBI to seek the records of possible terrorists from banks, businesses, and libraries. Many libraries claim this will harm the constitutional rights of Americans. You support these rights, but are also aware of the need to protect national security. Copyright © 2011 Cengage

16 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Arguments supporting the Patriot Act: 1. The Patriot Act does not target individuals who have not violated a criminal law and who do not threaten human life. 2. For the FBI to collect information about borrowers, it must first obtain permission from a federal judge. 3. Terrorists may use libraries to study and plan activities that threaten national security. Copyright © 2011 Cengage

17 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Arguments against the Patriot Act: 1. Freedom of speech and expression are fundamental constitutional guarantees that should not be infringed. 2. The law might harm groups engaged in peaceful protests. 3. The law allows the government to delay notifying people that their borrowing habits are being investigated. Copyright © 2011 Cengage

18 WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Your decision: Uphold this provision? Overturn this provision? Copyright © 2011 Cengage

19 Crime and Due Process Confessions and Self-Incrimination
Relaxing the Exclusionary Rule Terrorism and Civil Liberties Searches without Warrants Copyright © 2011 Cengage

20 Replace with jpeg, p. 119 p. 119 Copyright © 2011 Cengage

21 a chess set, and an arrow pointing toward Mecca. p. 119
JOE SKIPPER/ Reuters/ Corbis Inside a cell at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo, where Muslim inmates receive a copy of the Koran, a chess set, and an arrow pointing toward Mecca. p. 119 Copyright © 2011 Cengage

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