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1) what kind of speech does the first amendment protect?
a)commercial speech
b)defamation
c)obscenity
d)political speech

2)in snyder v. , the supreme court ruled in favor of the protesters. which of the following facts influenced their decision? has more than one answer?

a)the protest was during a funeral for a marine killed in iraq.
b)the protest was done by members of a baptist church.
c)the protesters had notified authorities before their protest.
d)the protesters were expressing views related to matters of public concern.
e)the protesters' signs were insulting and offensive to the marine's father
f) the protest was on public property, away from church

3)which of the following is an example of prior restraint?
a)an editor refuses to publish a writer's story.
b)the government does not allow the publication of a story.
c)the government punishes seditious comments.
d)a newspaper article leads to cancellation of subscriptions.

(1) Public speakers are protected by the First Amendment, protected by the tradition of freedom of expression in the United States that unequivocally holds that hate speech is protected, unless it is intended to incite imminent violence.  

The correct answer is: D  

(2) The church notified the local authorities in advance that they intended to organize the funeral, (C) organized the picket on public land adjacent to a public street and complied with all instructions from the police. (F)  

The position of the Supreme Court revolved largely on its determination that the church was talking about "matters of public interest" rather than "matters of purely private importance." (D)  

The correct answers are: C, D, and F  

(3) The term prior restriction refers to a government restriction on speech or other expression before it can take place.  

The correct answer is: B

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.