1. Read "Should Cross Burnings be Protected as a Form of Free Speech?", and address the elements listed below.
2. Summarize the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in both of the cases that are excerpted in the handout. In a few words, explain why the court inR.A.V. v. City of St. Pauloverturned the decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Explain why the court upheld the Virginia statute inVirginia v. Black.
3. InVirginia v. Black, what did the court mean when it held that "just as any state may regulate only that obscenity which is the most obscene due to its prurient content, so too may a state choose to prohibit only those forms of intimidation that are most likely to inspire fear of bodily harm"?