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penza · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

Identify a true statement about prior restraint.

A) The Supreme Court has mostly ruled in favor of prior restraint by stating that the government can curb ideas to protect its interests.
B) Acts of prior restraint are considered unconstitutional as they contradict the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
C) Prior restraint involves the removal of objectionable materials from an item before it is published or broadcast.
D) For a case of prior restraint to hold, a particular utterance should be intended to hurt another person.
E) For a case of prior restraint to hold, a particular content should excite unwholesome sexual desire.

Question 2

In the Engel v. Vitale (1962 ) case, the Supreme Court:

A) ruled that the Regents' prayer for public schools in New York was constitutional because the prayer was nondenominational.
B) ruled that the State Board of Regents in New York had acted unconstitutionally by composing a prayer to be used in public school classrooms at the start of each day.
C) ruled that the Ten Commandments be posted in all public schools.
D) held that public schools are barred from discussing religious movements.
E) upheld an Alabama law authorizing a daily one-minute period of silence for meditation and voluntary prayer.