MMC 3200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Flag Desecration, First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Actual Malice
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Go over notes highlight anything first amendment. Skim chapters grey boxes study the early stuff. Supreme court the ones that redefine the first amendment. The legal meaning or the first amendment that"s what you need to know about cases. First amendment includes right to burn a flag: speech that we find offensive, this is what the first amendment protects. Curse words are covered: why its problematic that the fcc fines based on this. Sexual material: if its obscene = not covered, if its indecent = covered. Censorship: suspending a student from school, regulation in the first amendment ftc and fcc, advertising is regulated, fcc shouldn"t be able to punish based on content. Symbolic speech: ex: burning the flag, flicking someone off, the arm band, message on a t shirt, not in words, but still expression (cid:1) (cid:1, protected under first amend. Public officials have to do actual malice.
