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The Petition of Right
This document allows the rights and liberties of a regular man to be shown and said. This allows citizens to not let soldiers into their home if they do not want to. This also says that no person could be imprisoned without cause -
Sedition Act of 1798 expires
Thomas Jefferson allowed all the people who have been imprisoned for the Sedition Act to be pardoned. -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act says that it is a crime to go against your military in the United States, and it also says that you are not allowed to get involved with how they recruit people. -
Sedition Act of 1918
The Sedition Act was an extension to the Espionage act which gave more of specifics on what you could not say. The Sedition Act made it a crime to talk bad about the government in any way. If you opposed this law then you were imprisoned. -
Schenck v. U.S.
Schenck tries to interrupt the draft by telling people not to go to the military and him doing this he opposed the Espionage act so he was imprisoned. Schenck felt that he could say that people didn't have to go to the military because he felt that he had a right to freedom of speech. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
At this time the world was very strong on religion. The main religion was christianity. Also, at this time you weren't allowed to go against the religion. So a teacher, John Scopes teaches the theory of evolutions which says we derive from monkeys. He was arrested. -
Stromberg v. California
A female of the Young Communist League displayed a red flag as an emblem to oppose the government, which she wasn't allowed to do. She gets arrested -
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
A man threatened someone on the street and when he was reported he said that he had freedom of speech. The courts decided that they were not going to allow harsh words of violence to be protected under the first amendment -
Lee v. Weisman
A father didn't want a rabbi to be at his daughters graduation, so he tried to put a restraining order on him but it was denied. -
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White
This case argued that you cannot be in a branch and tell people about the case, or how you think it is going to go. It helps the case from being swayed in any kind of way. -
United States v. American Library Association, Inc
The Federal Government set restrictions on the internet access in public libraries. They don't allow certain things to be looked up or watched on the internet. -
Snyder v. Phelps
A church was having a peaceful protest on their property. Some people didn't like what they were protesting against so they decided to report their protest. The government protected this protest under the first amendment because it was peaceful and on their property.
