Pre-Test: How is pornography treated in terms of First Amendment protection?Multiple ChoiceIt has First Amendment protection.It is not protected on TV or radio.The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on pornography as speech.It has no First Amendment protection.

Post-Test: In most cases, U.S. law and tradition make the use of prior restraint relatively rare. However, there have been a number of important efforts by government to squelch content. When would it be appropriate for the government to use prior restraint?Multiple Choicein times of war when national security was involvedif cameras in a courtroom presented no hazard to the principle of fair trialif sexually explicit content was judged to be pornographic, but not obscenein the reporting of public figures when it was known that the information was true

In Miller v. California (1973) the Supreme Court ruled that there is no broad First Amendment protection for pornography and that instead, states could censor pornographic work if all of the following conditions are satisfied except:Select an answer and submit. For keyboard navigation, use the up/down arrow keys to select an answer.aThe average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interests.bThe work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit.cThe work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions.dThe work portrays particular sex acts in ways that are especially unrealistic.

Self-Assessment Questions What is the basis for the protection of freedom of expression in the United States, and what types of expressions are not protected under the law? 1. The protects Americans’ rights to freedom of religion, freedom of expres- sion, and freedom to peaceably assemble. 2. The Supreme Court has held that obscene speech and defamation may be forbidden by the government. True or False? 3. An important Supreme Court case that established a three-part test to determine if material is obscene and therefore not protected speech was . 4. Making either an oral or a written statement of alleged fact that is false and harms another person is .

The 1st Amendment protects U.S. citizens right to freedom of speech.  The right to display tattoo's on one's body is a form of a speech act and is protected because of this rationale. Group of answer choicesPromotes AutonomyPromotes democracyCannot be restrictedPromotes the discovery of truth

ost-Test: What was significant about the 1957 Supreme Court case Roth v. United States?Multiple ChoiceIt determined that sex and obscenity were not synonymous.It determined in what cases freedom from prior consent would be acceptable.It determined what was considered indecency and could not be broadcast.It defined the difference between obscenity and pornography.