Please Note: The following assignment will be due on Friday. If it is not typed and turned in as a hard copy, I will not accept it. (That means no email submissions will be accepted!)
For those that have it as an assignment, you must complete ALL questions. No exceptions.
For those of you that have it as extra credit, complete the assignment in full as your peers are required to, but wrong answers will not count against you.
Directions: Watch the above video to around the 50 minute mark. As you watch, answer the following questions. Be sure to type your answers in complete sentences to be handed in on Friday (no sooner and no later). Again, as a reminder I will not accept email submissions unless there is special circumstance.
1: According to Scalia, does a bill of rights guarantee freedoms?
2: Ginsberg disagrees with Scalia on our legislature. Does she believe it is a good model in its current state?
3: According to Ginsberg, are there absolute rights?
4: According to Scalia, does the "freedom of the press" refer to the institutional press? If not, what did it originally refer to?
5: According to Scalia, what freedom is needed most in a democracy?
6: According to Ginsberg, could our democracy have survived without a freedom of the press?
7: At one point, the discussion turns to a politician or public figure being able to sue for libel. What was the positions of each justice?
8: At one point, Ginsberg brings up Skokie in Illinois. What happened there and what was the outcome of the court case discussed?
9: What was Scalia's decision in the flag burning case? Does he agree with flag burning?
10: What was Scalia's position on wiretapping?
11: What is Scalia's position on television cameras being allowed within the Supreme Court?
For those that have it as an assignment, you must complete ALL questions. No exceptions.
For those of you that have it as extra credit, complete the assignment in full as your peers are required to, but wrong answers will not count against you.
Directions: Watch the above video to around the 50 minute mark. As you watch, answer the following questions. Be sure to type your answers in complete sentences to be handed in on Friday (no sooner and no later). Again, as a reminder I will not accept email submissions unless there is special circumstance.
1: According to Scalia, does a bill of rights guarantee freedoms?
2: Ginsberg disagrees with Scalia on our legislature. Does she believe it is a good model in its current state?
3: According to Ginsberg, are there absolute rights?
4: According to Scalia, does the "freedom of the press" refer to the institutional press? If not, what did it originally refer to?
5: According to Scalia, what freedom is needed most in a democracy?
6: According to Ginsberg, could our democracy have survived without a freedom of the press?
7: At one point, the discussion turns to a politician or public figure being able to sue for libel. What was the positions of each justice?
8: At one point, Ginsberg brings up Skokie in Illinois. What happened there and what was the outcome of the court case discussed?
9: What was Scalia's decision in the flag burning case? Does he agree with flag burning?
10: What was Scalia's position on wiretapping?
11: What is Scalia's position on television cameras being allowed within the Supreme Court?