Rights and Their Limits · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Where your rights meet mine

Civics & Economics · Government · ages 14-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Which one is a duty the state owes you?

    • A life free of all rules
    • A newspaper that praises you
    • A fair trial

  2. Why can speech face narrow limits?

    • To spare officials from criticism
    • To guard safety and the rights of others
    • To cut the cost of policing

  3. Almost no right is absolute.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. How should you handle a case where two rights conflict?

    • Always let the louder side win
    • Set out both sides fairly and pick the narrowest guarding rule
    • Ban both rights at once

  5. A school stops a student paper from naming a private pupil. Which clash is this?

    • Math against history
    • Press freedom against privacy
    • Homework against holidays

  6. A rule blocks a whole rally over one rude banner. Which test does it fail?

    • Rules must be handwritten
    • Rallies need no reason
    • No broader ban than needed

  7. A limit with a real reason but a far wider ban than needed is fair.

    Circle one:   True   False

  8. A speaker plans a midnight march with loudspeakers past a hospital ward. Both sides stated fairly: what fits?

    • Move the march or lower the volume near the ward
    • Ban the speaker from ever marching
    • Close the hospital for the night
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Answer key

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  1. A fair trial · A fair trial is a service the state must provide.
  2. To guard safety and the rights of others · Limits stand when they guard safety or order with a real reason.
  3. True · Rights bend where real harm starts, within narrow limits.
  4. Set out both sides fairly and pick the narrowest guarding rule · Fair handling states both sides, weighs harm, and keeps the rule narrow.
  5. Press freedom against privacy · The paper's freedom meets the pupil's privacy, so both sides count.
  6. No broader ban than needed · One banner cannot justify banning a whole rally.
  7. False · Fair limits use no broader ban than the reason needs.
  8. Move the march or lower the volume near the ward · The narrowest rule guards both speech and patients' rest.
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