The Supreme Court and Civil Rights — Unit test

Question 1

For prior restraint to apply, what must the government prove about the speech in question?

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The speech must present a clear and identifiable danger.

Question 2

State laws passed primarily in Southern states to restrict the voting rights of African Americans after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment came to be known collectively as

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Jim Crow laws.

Question 3

Edwards v. South Carolina is significant because it limited states’ ability to

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restrict the freedom of assembly.

Question 4

The government tried to stop the New York Times from publishing classified material by using a concept known as

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prior restraint.

Question 5

According to the ruling in New York Times v. United States, which best describes what the government had to prove for its censorship of the New York Times to have been acceptable?

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The articles would have had to indisputably threaten national security.

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