Gov 13.3 Quiz MMHS

What exception to freedom of speech involves words so insulting that they provoke immediate violence?

Fighting words

What type of speech describes publishing an article accusing a politician of infidelity that the author knows to be false?

Defamatory speech

What term describes the use of actions or symbols, instead of words or speech, to express opinions?

Symbolic speech

What exception to freedom of speech dictates speech cannot create an immediate hazard?

Clear and present danger

What theory states that First Amendment freedoms are more fundamental than other freedoms and should not be limited at all?

Preferred position doctrine

What term describes speech urging resistance to lawful authority or advocating the overthrow of the government?

Seditious speech

What is an example of seditious speech?

Advocating the violent overthrow of the government

What term describes the verbal expression of thought and opinion to an audience that has chosen to listen?

Pure Speech

What outdated exception to freedom of speech dictated that speech could not have a propensity to lead to illegal actions?

Bad tendency doctrine

Respectively, what kind of defamatory speech is spoken and what kind is written?

Slander, libel