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After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

 Explain the purpose of the Bill of Rights and the process by which its provisions came to be “incorporated.”

 Define prior restraint and examine the various free speech tests devised by the Supreme Court to distinguish between actions that are constitutionally protected and those that are not.

 Explore the debate over what constitutes an establishment of religion and where to draw the line between constitutionally protected free exercise of religion and unprotected conduct.

 Discuss the arguments for and against the constitutional right of privacy and recognize the types of issues to which it applies.

 Understand the concept of procedural due process and other rights of criminal defendants and explain how the process of incorporation has affected those rights.