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