The more First Amendment cases the Supreme Court hears, the more complex First Amendment law becomes. One key way the court has made this area of law more complex is by establishing Varying Levels of First Amendment Protection, which will be the subject under discussion in Week 4.
Seeing my students struggle in the past to absorb these concepts and their corresponding cases from a traditional textbook, I developed the Stair-Step Method. This is a visual way of organizing the material into more manageable parts. Hence, we have the Five Stair-Step Visualizations:
Levels of Scrutiny
Levels of Protection by Type of Medium
Levels of Protection by Type of Speech
Levels of Protection by Type of Speaker
Levels of Protection by Type of Forum
Below, we see the Levels of Scrutiny stair step on the bottom and the Levels of Protection by Type of Medium stair step above:
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Below, we have Levels of Protection by Type of Speech:
Finally, below, Levels of Protection by Type of Speaker and Type of Forum:
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