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Symbolic Speech

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Ninth graders consider the right of freedom of speech as it is outlined in the U.S. Constitution. They receive background information for the US Supreme Court, the Bill of Rights, and free speech. They discuss a series of actual cases where free speech was taken to the Supreme Court.

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critical thinking, the first amendment, constitutional amendments, freedom of speech, freedoms, the criminal justice system, the judicial branch, the supreme court, laws

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law, 1st amendment, critical thinking, freedom of speech, supreme court, judicial system, personal freedoms, social studies
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9th
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Social Studies & History
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