{"id":3755,"date":"2020-12-28T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?page_id=3755"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:20:43","slug":"section1quiz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/section1quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"1.Q Section 1 quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Basic principles of Communications Law\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>1.1\u00a0 Communications law overview\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Why do we study communications law?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>How do we study communications law?<\/li>\n<li>What is the paradox of tolerance?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\">What are the six parts of the First Amendment to the US Constitution?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What declarations or documents also guarantee human rights world wide?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to take a critical approach to study of the law?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.2 Human rights worldwide\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are human rights and who protects them worldwide? What institutions and non-governmental organizations are at work in the field?<\/li>\n<li>What rights are upheld by free countries and denied by those that are not free?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the difference between the US approach to freedom of religion, speech and press and the approach taken by Russia, China or Saudi Arabia?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.3 &#8211; 1.4 Structure of the judicial system\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which countries have common law systems and which have a civil law systems?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s an example of a &#8220;tort&#8221; in communications law?<\/li>\n<li>State court systems have three levels. What are they?<\/li>\n<li>The US system has both federal and state courts. Which branch has the final say on a case?<\/li>\n<li>How do civil plaintiffs end up in federal court, as opposed to state court?<\/li>\n<li>Which type of court holds civil trials in Virginia? District; circuit; inferior; superior; diversity?<\/li>\n<li>How do the courts decide where to try free speech and constitutional cases involving more than one state? What kind of jurisdiction would be appropriate in a case involving a libel suit against a California publisher by a Lynchburg minister?<\/li>\n<li>In non-criminal (civil) law, what are the two main kinds of legal action?<\/li>\n<li>Why does communications law focus on court cases?<\/li>\n<li>What are the five sources of law in the US system?<\/li>\n<li>The two general categories of law are civil and criminal. What are the two categories of civil law?<\/li>\n<li>What circuit of the federal court of appeals do you happen to live in?<\/li>\n<li>Which court has the final say in a constitutional issue: A state supreme court or the US supreme court?<\/li>\n<li>What do you call a decision of a court ? What do you call a decision of a jury ?<\/li>\n<li>What is the usual standard of proof in a criminal case, and what is the usual standard of proof in a civil case?<\/li>\n<li>If a lawsuit starts as Smith v Johnson, and then Smith wins and Johnson files an appeal, what is the name of the appeals case? Is it still Smith v Johnson or Johnson v Smith?<\/li>\n<li>Terms to know: Complaint, venue, motion for summary judgement, demurrer, voir dire, appeal, opinion, dissenting opinion, certiorari, diversity jurisdiction, standing, scienter, dismissed with prejudice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.5 Democratic principles\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is popular sovereignty?<\/li>\n<li>What are natural rights? Why are they natural?<\/li>\n<li>One basic principle of law\u00a0 is so important that it is engraved on the entranceway to the US Supreme Court. What is it?<\/li>\n<li>What is due process?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we have a separation of powers?<\/li>\n<li>Define:\u00a0 constitutionality, stare decisis, federal supremacy, marketplace of ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.6 Basics of media law\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is media law civil or criminal in the US and other free countries?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the content issues?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the structural issues?<\/li>\n<li>What agencies regulate broadcasting? Advertising? Copyright?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.7 First Amendment tests and principles\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the state action doctrine?<\/li>\n<li>What is prior restraint?<\/li>\n<li>What is compelled speech?<\/li>\n<li>What is counter-speech doctrine?<\/li>\n<li>What is viewpoint discrimination?<\/li>\n<li>What is forum analysis?<\/li>\n<li>What is the clear and present danger test?<\/li>\n<li>What is imminent action?<\/li>\n<li>What are the common carrier and public accommodations doctrines?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the burden of proof important?<\/li>\n<li>In cases testing\u00a0\u00a0c<em>ontent specific laws<\/em> curtailing speech, the courts should apply what level of scrutiny?<\/li>\n<li>In cases testing\u00a0 <em>content neutral laws<\/em> curtailing speech, the courts should apply what level of scrutiny?<\/li>\n<li>The process of bringing state law under federal law, using the Fourteenth Amendment, is called what?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.8 Jurisprudence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What good is the First Amendment? What is the function of freedom of religion, speech and press?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\">What are some external issues in jurisprudence?\u00a0 What are some of the internal principles?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Why didn&#8217;t Zechariah Chafee like the &#8220;clear and present danger&#8221; test for censorship?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Describe traditional First Amendment scholars and their theories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is absolutism and who was its advocate?<\/li>\n<li>What is balancing, libertarianism, and context, and who were the advocates for those theories?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are code, social justice, and human dignity theories in media law?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.9 International communications law\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some of the sources of international communications law? What were some of the first organizations and treaties?<\/li>\n<li>What were some of the media NGOs established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?<\/li>\n<li>What was the Lieber Code?<\/li>\n<li>Why did \u00a0Eleanor Roosevelt first propose a new League of Nations? Who first called it the United Nations?<\/li>\n<li>What was the Sankey Declaration and who was its main author?<\/li>\n<li>Complete this sentence from the founding of UNESCO:\u00a0 <em>Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that ______\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>What conditions and developments led to the \u00a0Universal Declaration of Human Rights?<\/li>\n<li>What were Francis Bacon&#8217;s three inventions that changed the world, and how did US president John F. 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