POS2041 Chapter 4

What percentage of the U.S. prison population is Hispanic?

21 percent

Which of the following is true of the Supreme Court's treatment of student speech?

It has allowed conditional restrictions on student free speech depending on the content of the speech.

The death penalty was implemented in 2010 in all the following states except

Oregon.

What is the name of the surveillance program that was cited as being effective against terrorism?

Prism

____ liberties place restraints on how government is supposed to act, while ____ liberties limit what the government has the power to do.

Procedural; substantive

Which geographic region has a significantly higher level of incarceration per 100,000 residents?

South

Which of the following statements about the death penalty is accurate?

The United States is the only Western nation that still executes criminals.

Which of the following is established by the Fifth Amendment?

The courts cannot hold trials for serious offenses without provision for a grand jury.

Which of the following is true about deterrence based on the data presented in this chart?

The murder rate for states that have the death penalty and have conducted at least one execution is higher than in states that do not have the death penalty.

Which of the following is suggested by the data presented in the chart?

Violent offenders are irrational by definition.

Which category of criminal offenders make up the smallest segment of the U.S. prison population?

public-order offenders

Which race/ethnicity represents the second-largest group within the U.S. prison population?

White

The death penalty is not currently legal in

Wisconsin.

Selective incorporation

considers the provisions of the Bill of Rights one by one and selectively applies them as limits on the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

Which of the following is a component of the Lemon test?

determining whether government involvement advances a particular religion

Fighting words fall outside constitutional protection because they

directly incite violence.

The Fifth Amendment protects against

double jeopardy.

The idea of the separation of church and state is most closely associated with the

establishment clause.

The most dramatic restraint imposed on police by the Bill of Rights, which can free those people who are known to have committed the crime of which they have been accused, is the

exclusionary rule.

The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that the right to privacy

extends to gay and lesbian citizens.

Civil liberties are

limitations on government action.

Concerns about privacy led Senator Udall to advocate having a national debate on the use of

metadata.

The right of the people "to keep and bear Arms" is based on

participation in state militias.

In the 2006 case of United States v. Grubbs, the Supreme Court ruled that

police could conduct searches using such "anticipatory warrants."

The free exercise clause protects

right to believe in and practice one's religion of choice.

The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade was based on the

right to privacy.

Speech that is accompanied by conduct and that can be regulated by the government to preserve public order is called

speech plus.

Eminent domain is the power of government to

take private property for public use.

In the important 1945 case concerning eminent domain, the Supreme Court essentially ruled that

the "public interest" used to justify eminent domain can mean anything a legislature wants it to mean.

Which aspect of the Fourth Amendment has made government surveillance programs controversial?

warrantless searches