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Alex identifies himself as a right-wing Christian conservative.  He believes that radical Islamic terrorists are trying to take over his community.  He has desecrated mosques by spray painting things like “No Sharia Law Here” and “This Is A Christian Nation” on them.  He argues he is within his first amendment right to free speech because he is simply protecting his country and community against an invasion of radical Islamist terrorists.  However, given the information provided, his actions would probably not be upheld as protected speech in court because he is knowingly committing vandalism and desecration of private property.

The part of the 14th amendment guaranteeing that persons cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property by the U.S. or state governments without due process of law is called ____________________.

The Constitutional and other legal protections against government actions are referred to as __________.

The legal concept under which the Supreme Court has nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the 14th amendment is called ________________.

John plays high school football.He is a good student and is very popular.He has never been in trouble, he is on the honor roll, and is in a relationship with a good, clean cut, beautiful girl.Life just couldn’t get any better.However, he also smokes marijuana.One week the high school decides to have a spontaneous mandatory drug test for its athletes.John is furious.He is afraid he will get caught, get in trouble, be kicked off of the team, lose his girlfriend, and be labeled a loser by his classmates.He believes this is a violation of his Constitutional rights.Unfortunately for John (LOL, HA HA!!, sorry John you’re busted!!) the Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory drug tests for high school athletes are not in violation of the

The words “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution.

The 1963 Supreme Court decision holding that anyone accused of a felony where imprisonment may be imposed has a right to a lawyer was the _____________________ decision.  The decision requires the government to provide a lawyer to anyone so accused who is too poor to afford one.

A former student of mine who said Gregory Lee Johnson (the man who burned an American flag in protest in Dallas, Texas outside the National Republican convention) looked like an idiot also believed that people who burn the flag ought to be beheaded.However, in the the famous Supreme Court case Texas vs. Johnson the Court struck down a state law which prohibited flag burning as being in violation of the 1st amendment right to free speech

Texas has a 9 member court known as the __________________ which serves as the court of last resort in civil cases.

There are ______________ immediate courts of appeals in Texas covering thirteen multicounty regions that hear appeals of both civil and criminal cases from the district courts.