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Quasi-Legal Institute

Practice scenarios

25 exercises based on constitutional text and court decisions. Apply a rule, compare two situations, or identify the fact that matters.

Student expression, school publications, and religious freedom.

Speech and religionScenario 1 of 5

First Amendment · Apply the rule

A group of students wear plain black armbands to class to protest a war. The principal has banned the armbands, but no class has been interrupted and no one has complained.

Can the school punish the students for wearing them?

Progress lasts for this session only. Examples simplify the law for teaching; the outcome of a real case depends on its facts and the applicable law.