The ________ has consistently rejected the relevance of wealth in applying the principle of equality under law.
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Constitutional history
________, at least in the United States, could be written as a struggle between the commitment to freedom and the commitment to equality.
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Libel
________ is a common law tort.
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Supreme Court
The Civil War brought equality front and center, and we saw in the last chapter that in the period between 1954 and 1974 the ________ expanded the American commitment to the "equal protection of the laws "under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Civil War
Prior to the ________, the dominant theme of American law was freedom from interference by the federal government.
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slander
Libel refers to defamation in print as opposed to _____________, which addresses aural defamation.
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The First Amendment provided, as of 1791
"Congress shall make no law
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freedom of speech and of the press.
The most significant assertion of freedom in the United States is the faith in__________________________.
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