The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)Chapter 4:
Civil Liberties: Protecting Individual RightsChapter Outline
- The Constitution: The Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
- Selective Incorporation of Free Expression Rights
- Selective Incorporation of Fair Trial Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- The Early Period: The Uncertain Status of the Right of Free Expression
- The Modern Period: Protecting Free Expression
- Free Speech
- Free Assembly
- Press Freedom and Prior Restraint
- Libel and Slander
- Obscenity
- Freedom of Religion
- The Establishment Clause
- The Free-Exercise Clause
- The Right to Bear Arms
- The Right of Privacy
- Abortion
- Sexual Relations among Consenting Adults
- Rights of Persons Accused of Crimes
- Suspicion Phase: Unreasonable Search and Seizure
- Arrest Phase: Protection against Self-Incrimination
- Trial Phase: The Right to a Fair Trial
- Legal Counsel and Impartial Jury
- The Exclusionary Rule
- Sentencing Phase: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Appeal: One Chance, Usually
- Crime, Punishment, and Police Practices
- Rights and the War on Terrorism
- Detention of Enemy Combatants
- Surveillance of Suspected Terrorists
- The Courts and a Free Society
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