Chapter 10: Freedom Fights Back

American Supreme Court

The ________ has consistently rejected the relevance of wealth in applying the principle of equality under law.

Constitutional history

________, at least in the United States, could be written as a struggle between the commitment to freedom and the commitment to equality.

Libel

________ is a common law tort.

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.

Civil War

Prior to the ________, the dominant theme of American law was freedom from interference by the federal government.

slander

Libel refers to defamation in print as opposed to _____________, which addresses aural defamation.

The First Amendment provided, as of 1791

"Congress shall make no law

freedom of speech and of the press.

The most significant assertion of freedom in the United States is the faith in__________________________.