Federal Gov't 2305 Quiz 4 and 5
The term civil liberties refers to specific individual rights that ...
Are constitutionally protected from infringement by gov't.
Which of the following is NOT protected by the First Amendment?
Freedom of bearing arms.
Disadvantaged Americans have generally gained their rights...
Through struggle against entrenched interests.
In the Constitution, procedural due process is protected by the...
A. Fourth Amendment. B. Fifth Amendment. C. Sixth Amendment. D. Eighth Amendment. *E. All of these answers are correct.*
One example of a policy that aimed chiefly to overcome de facto discrimination is...
Busing to achieve racial integration in the schools.
In deciding two 2014 cases involving the legality of searching a suspect's cell phone, the Supreme Court ruled that...
The cell phone cannot be searched, unless police believe that doing so could prevent a serious imminent crime, such as a terrorist attack.
According to the Supreme Court, prayer in public schools violates...
The establishment clause.
What is the greatest restriction on appeals in the United States?
A federal law that bars, in most instances, a second federal appeal by a state prison inmate.
When the United States first came into being, married women were permitted to...
A. vote. B. hold office. C. serve on juries. D. own and dispense property without the husband's consent. *E. None of these answers is correct.*
The individual freedoms in the Bill of Rights were extended by the Fourteenth Amendment to include protection from deprivation of due process rights by...
Actions of state and local gov'ts.
When can police legally begin their interrogation of a suspect?
After the suspect has been warned that their words can be used as evidence.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was aimed at eliminating discrimination...
By private individuals in their employment practices and in their operation of public accommodations (e.g., hotels, restaurants).
What was the main conclusion of the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and its 2010 decision in McDonald v. Chicago?
Citizens are allowed to own guns for legitimate purposes, such as protecting the home.
Housing in America...
Continues to evidence a high degree of racial segregation.
In a 2004 case involving the issue of whether a U.S. citizen accused of terrorist acts is entitled to constitutional protections, the Supreme Court held that such citizens...
Do have the right to a judicial hearing.
The Lemon test is designed to...
Ensure the secular nature of a gov't action.
In the 1967 decision of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court...
First explicitly applied the strict scrutiny test.
The Supreme Court concept of suspect classifications suggests that...
Laws that classify people differently on the basis of their race or ethnicity are presumed to have discrimination as their purpose.
Like all other rights, the right of free expression is...
Not absolute.
Which of the following countries comes closest to the United States in terms of the percentage of its citizens who are behind bars?
Russia.
In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court ruled that...
Speech could be restricted when the nation's security is at stake.
Which of the following had the GREATEST impact on increasing voting rates by African Americans?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
According to the Supreme Court, prior restraint on the press is only acceptable if...
The government can clearly justify the restriction.
The Supreme Court has reasoned that a right of privacy is provided by...
The implication of the right to privacy by the freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
In its 2011 Snyder v. Phelps ruling, the Supreme Court held that Westboro Baptist Church protests at military funerals...
Were a constitutionally protected form of free speech.
Native Americans...
Were not given citizenship status en masse until the twentieth century.