Posi 2320 civil liberties: Protecting individual rights

The Supreme Court has recently employed the eighth amendment to band which of the following?

- The death penalty for the mentally ill -Life sentences with parole for juveniles - The death penalty for juveniles

What are the religious closet in the first amendment?

- The establishment clause - The free exercise clause

Identify the rights of federal government is obliged to protect according to the Bill of Rights

- protection of self incriminating - the right to an attorney -the right to a jury trial -protection from unreasonable searches

Which of the following constitutional protections were at issue in the supreme court decision in Miranda versus Arizona 1966?

- right to an attorney - right to remain silent

Which of the following amendments contribute to ensuring criminal due process?

-4 -5 -6 -8

Which of the following is a right of the accused that is protected by the fifth amendment?

Do you have a grand jury way the prosecutions evidence

Do US patriot act was passed in order to

Combat terrorism

Freedom of expression, provided by the first amendment allows Americans to

-Communicate thoughts of their choosing - write or publish almost anything with some limits

In following the eighth amendment, the Supreme Court has used which of the following test to determine if an action constitute cruel and unusual punishment?

-Determining of a punishment is unnecessarily cruel -Determining whether a punishment is a disproportionate to the offense -Determining if a punishment violates fundamental standards of good conscience and fairness

Which of the following are considered civil liberties?

-Freedom of religion -Freedom of speech -Right of a fair trial

Which of the following statements are true concerning the right of assembly?

-Individuals cannot hold an assembly at a busy intersection during rush hour -public officials can regulate the time in place of assemblies -regulations of public assemblies must be applied fairly small groups

What are the religious closet in the first amendment?

-that establishment clause -The free exercise clause

The eighth amendment protects people convicted of crimes frim

Cruel and unusual punishment

In which decade the election of tough on crime candidates lead to the states ledges straighter's enacting stiff or penalties for crime will also limiting judges ability to reduce sentence for nonviolent crimes of first time offenders?

1990s

England's ______ gave members of protestant sects the right of worship freely and publicly. The first amendment reflects the tradition

Act of tolerating

In the case of Korematsu versus United States in 1944, the courts

Allowed government policies during wartime that would not be allowed in times of peace

In Lawrence versus Texas 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot lawfully

Band sexual relations between consenting same-sex adults

Constitutional guarantees that protect citizens from arbitrary government actions are known as

Civil liberties

In Engle v. Vitals (1962), The Supreme Court ruled against reciting of prayers in public schools on ground it violates the

Establishment clause

According to the Supreme Court police concerts a persons home early on the basis of a hunch that the owner might be breaking the law

False

The right to appeal after commission is guaranteed in the constitution

False

Under the fifth amendment, suspects charged with a

Federal crime cannot be tried unless indicated by a grand jury

Which amendment to the United States Constitution protects individuals from testifying against himself in a court of law?

Fifth

Which is the amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures?

Fourth

The first amendment clause bearing the government from passing any laws that prohibit any individuals practice of his or her religion is known as the ______ clause

Free exercise

The first amendment protection that makes it illegal for the government to enact laws are restricted free practice religion by an individual is known as the

Free- exercise clause

Which of the following statements is true regarding freedom of press?

Freedom of the press receive strong judicial protection

Regarding freedom of the press, the Supreme Court has generally upheld the principle of no prior restraint. The principal means that

Government genuinely cannot stop the news media reporting a story

The Supreme Court has ruled that the person is generally appeal their cases first

In state courts

As a result of changes in the sentencing policies, do US prison population, per capita,

Is the largest in the world

Which of these groups is typically more protected by the individual rights?

Judges

The Supreme Court upheld the first relations of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II in which of the following cases?

Korematsu vs. US

The supreme court determined the privacy rights extend to consensual activity between the same sex partners in

Lawrence vs Texas

Which of the following cases established a lawn Forssman officers most advise detainees of the rights, including the right to remain silent in the right to an attorney, before beginning questioning in a criminal investigation?

Miranda vs. Arizona

The bill right protect the number of civil liberties, including freedom

Of the press Of speech Of assembly

Eight Amendment

Protection against cruel and unusual punishment

Fifth Amendment

Protection against self-incrimination and double Jeopardy

Fourth Amendment

Protection against unreasonable search and seizure

According to the establishment clause, the government is required to

Remain neutral towards all religion

Sixth Amendment

Right to a jury trial, an attorney, and to confront witness

Second amendment

Right to bear arms

The Supreme Court has upheld a law banning what is termed as a partial birth abortion. In her dissent , Juatice Ruth Badar Ginsberg maintained that the law

Risk women's lives in health

In 2010 CNN survey, two and five American stated that individuals arrested by police on suspicion of terrorism

Should not be read their Miranda rights

The right to legal counsel is a ____ American protection

Sixth

The Supreme Court has ruled the right of the free assembly

Takes precedence over the mere possibility that the exercise of the right might have undesirable consequences

The supreme court decision in Schneck vs. United States established which principal?

The federal government can restrict free expression but it does not have an unlimited authority to do so

In Schenck vs. US (1919), Justice Holmes use which analogy in upholding the governments right to restrict speech that possesses a clear and present danger?

The first amendment does not permit a person to falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater

In the 1963 Gideon case, the Supreme Court establish that

The government must provide lawyers to individuals who cannot afford their own attorney

What unique circumstance existed at the time of the Korematsu vs. United States decision?

The nation was at war

Why was national security agency's collection of Americans phone records, as rude by Edward Snowden in 2013, Road unlawful by federal appellate court?

The program had not been authorized by Congress

In 1977 Supreme Court case that provided guidance in the allowable restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly upheld which of the following?

The right of an American Nazi party group to hold a parade in the Skokie city with the large Jewish population that includes Holocaust survivors

What was the name of the 1798 law that criminalized any speech or writing career goals of the government, Congress, or the president?

The sedition act

What is the purpose of the fifth and 14th amendment

They provide that no person can be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law

Although it is a core principal for most Americans, the right to privacy is not explicitly mentioned in the constitution

True

Passed by Congress soon after 9/11 attacks, the law that allows the FBI another intelligences to ask his personal information and records without consent from target images of known as the

USA patriot act

In Hamden versus Rumsfield, the Supreme Court ruled that the use of secret military tribunals to trade detainees accused of terrorism was ______, as detainees were entitled to a trial affording all guarantees contained in the constitution

Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court consistently ruled the George W. Bush administration practice of denying constitutional and legal protections Two enemy combatants was

Under the jurisdiction of the United States courts

In Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, the Supreme Court ruled that restrictions on abortion were legal so long as he didn't place in _______ on a woman's right to obtain an abortion

Undue burden

First Amendment

Write a speech, press, assembly and religion

The importance of listing individual rights in the Constitution is that it gives individuals who feel that their rights have been violated

a basis for taking the alleged violation into a court of law for a ruling by a judge.

Which of the following is likely to convince the judge that police should be issued a search warrant?

establishing probable cause for believing a crime has been committed

The right of an individual to be left alone without any interference from others is known as the right to

privacy

Griswold v. Connecticut was a case dealing with

right to privacy