Prior Restraint
FRQ #3, SCOTUS Comparison. Jay Near was the publisher of a newspaper in Minneapolis in the late 1920s called The Saturday Press. In it […]
Civil Liberties
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Supreme Court Case. Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon analyst, became disillusioned with the war in Vietnam and released a massive report known as the Pentagon […]
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Clear and Present Danger. The first time the Supreme Court examined a federal conviction on a free speech claim was in Schenck v. United States […]
Civil Rights
Multiple-Choice Questions. To assess your knowledge and skills in government and politics answer these sample multiple-choice questions. Here are some table comparison questions on civil […]
Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights
What is the Distinction? What are the distinctions between these? Do they overlap at all? Here are some definitions and lines drawn by legal authorities: […]