An Absolute Privilege Exists to Protect Which of the Following

question 71

Multiple Choice

An absolute privilege exists to protect which of the following in defamation cases?

• A) Members of Congress on the floor of Congress
• B) Statements made by the U.S.President in the discharge of official duty
• C) Statements about third persons between spouses when they are alone
• D) All of these.

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Definitions:

Modus Ponens (MP)

A form of argument in deductive reasoning that applies the following structure: if P then Q; P is asserted to be true, therefore Q must be true.

Modus Tollens (MT)

A logical form of argument that concludes the inverse of an antecedent from the negation of the consequent of a conditional statement.

Constructive Dilemma (CD)

A form of argument in which, from two conditional statements and the affirmation of their antecedents, one infers the affirmation of their consequents.

Atomic Sentences

Simple sentences that cannot be broken down into smaller sentences without losing meaning.