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Name: ___Cole Williams_____________________________________

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Religious Freedom
(from the 1st amendment) • Free exercise clause- The government can’t interfere with religion unless it
violates someone’s rights
• Establishment clause- Congress will not make a law that gives preference
to only one religion.

Landmark Religious court • Wisconsin v. Yoder


cases • Lemon v. Kurtzman
• Engel v. Vitale
• Epperson v. Arkansas
• Edwards v. Aguillard
• Oregon Employment Division v. Smith
• Allegheny County v. Greater Pittsburgh ACLU

Free Speech • Protecte
(from the 1st amendment) • -Hate speech- as long as it doesn’t violate other’s rights
• -expression that does not violate someone’s rights (burning a flag)
Texas v. Johnson
• Not Protected
• libel- written defamation of character
• Slander- spoken defamation of character

Landmark free speech • Schenk v. U.S.
cases • Chaplinsky v. N.H.
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Texas v. Johnson
• United States v. O’brien
• Gitlow v. New York
• Brandenburg v. Ohio
• Virginia v. Black

Rights of the Accused • Mapp v. Ohio
(4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th • Miranda v. Arizona
amendments) • - Right to remain silent
• - Right to an attorney
• Gideon v. Wainwright(If you can’t afford one, one will be appointed to
you.
• Other rights of the accused
• - No double jeopardy
• - No cruel and unusual punishment

Rights in schools • Bakke v. California

• Bethel School District v. Fraser


• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

• New Jersey v. TLO

Racial quota in schools prohibited

Bakke v California

Themes I see in the Court Cases


information

Other Questions I may Why are these court cases necessary?


have about the Do they make us have more freedom?
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Please list three things Court cases about freedom of speech


you learned today Court Cases about religion
(Required) All these court cases give freedom

Please explain how one These court cases make me more free as a U.S citizen.
thing you learned today
relates to you. BE
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