When can the government exercise prior restraint on the press?

As Gideon v. Wainwright was to the Sixth Amendment, what Constitutional amendment applied to Mapp v. Ohio?

Identify Federal Communications Commission.

Use prior restraint and libel to explain the limits placed on the free press.

Checking Consistency Are there any circumstances under which reporters should be required to reveal or protect their confidential information or sources? Explain your answer.

Define prior restraint, sequester, gag order, shield laws.

What three tests does the Supreme Court use to set limits on free speech?

What types of speech does the First Amendment not protect?

Making Comparisons How does freedom of speech in the United States differ in wartime and in peacetime? Refer to Supreme Court decisions in your answer.

Identify Equal Access Act.

Recognizing Ideologies Do you think that prayer in public schools is permitted or disallowed by the establishment clause and/or the free exercise clause of the First Amendment? Explain your answer.

What protection does the First Amendment provide for the media?

Main Idea Use a Venn diagram like the one shown here to explain the difference between slander and libel.

Main Idea Use a Venn diagram like the one to the right to show the difference between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and what they have in common.