-What are the five basic freedoms that are listed in the ...

-What are the five basic freedoms

that are listed in the 1st

Amendment?

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First Amendment Rights

The Five Freedoms

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1. What are civil liberties?

The freedoms we have to think and act

without government interference or fear

of unfair treatment

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Know Your Rights!

Can you name any of the specific rights

guaranteed by the First Amendment?

In the U.S. is it legal to burn the flag as a

means of political protest?

Can a public university censor a student

newspaper?

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Facts

If you didn¡¯t know the answers to the

previous questions you are not alone!

Only 17% of Americans could name all

five freedoms guaranteed in the First

Amendment.

Only 25% of students knew it was legal to

burn the flag in protest.

As far as censoring a student newspaper

at a public university, it is against the law.

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