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2.6 Protecting Individual Citizens

1st & 4th Amendments In Depth

Government & Citizenship Timpanogos High School

2.6 Protecting Individual Citizens

Congress shall make no law 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. – Amendment I

Target 2.6

2.6 Protecting Individual Citizens

• 1st Amendment -Freedom of Religion

o Establishment clause

• “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion...

o Free Exercise clause

• ...nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

o Separation of Church and State

FREE SPEECH

Target 2.6

2.6 Protecting Individual Citizen

• 1st Amendment – Free Speech

• Two kinds of speech:

o Pure speech and symbolic speech

• Speech that can be restricted:

o Seditious speech

o Defamatory speech

o Obscenity

2.6 Protecting the Individual Citizen

Free SpeechWhat are the limits to speech?

Face Book

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

4th Amendment In Depth

• Search and seizure

o Unreasonable

• Reasonable suspicion

• Probable cause

o Search Warrants

o Exclusionary rule

2.6 Protecting the Individual Citizen

What are your rights?

Border Search Authority

2.6 Protecting the Individual Citizen

• Technology and the Fourth Amendment

o Kyllo v. United States (2001)

2.6 Case Study