Quiz 4 - GOVT 2305

The rights of disabled individuals to access public businesses is guaranteed by the

. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Which statement about "fighting words" is most accurate?

.Since the 1950s, the Supreme Court has reversed almost every conviction based on arguments that the speaker used "fighting words."

Between 1976 and 2017, state governments executed ________ people.

1,448

In 1965, in the seven states of the Old Confederacy covered by the Voting Rights Act (VRA), approximately ________ percent of the eligible black residents were registered to vote, in contrast to the approximately ________ percent of the white residents.

30; 75

________ states have statutes providing for capital punishment, while ________ states have statutes banning the death penalty.

31; 19

________ states have enacted legislation requiring voters to show positive identification at the polls.

34

The Bill of Rights was adopted because the

Antifederalists demanded it as the price of ratification of the Constitution.

A constitutional right to privacy was established in

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).

Which of the following is true of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

It ended some of the most blatant forms of discrimination across the country.

Which of the following is true about the Bill of Rights?

It is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The exclusionary rule was applied to all levels of government by the Supreme Court in which case?

Mapp v. Ohio

The Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not require schools to permit students to advocate illegal drug use in the case

Morse v. Frederick (2007).

Which Supreme Court case was related to the publication of the so-called Pentagon Papers?

New York Times v. United States

The Montgomery bus boycott began after ________ refused to give up her seat for a white man.

Rosa Parks

What was the Supreme Court's response to the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

The Court declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination rather than state discrimination

Which of the following statements about Supreme Court decisions related to executions under the Eighth Amendment is NOT accurate?

The Supreme Court has outlawed the use lethal injection as a mode of execution.

Which of the following statements about high school students in public schools is most accurate?

The Supreme Court has ruled that high school students have conditionally protected speech that can be constitutionally regulated under certain circumstances.

Which of the following statements best describes the effect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on voter registration in southern states?

The gap between the percentage of whites registering to vote and the percentage of African Americans registering to vote declined significantly after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

How did the 1970 amendments to the Voting Rights Act strengthen voting rights?

They made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance for non-English-speaking Americans.

The Supreme Court articulated a right to privacy in a case involving

access to birth control

McDonald v. Chicago (2010) was significant because it

applied the Second Amendment to state governments.

The Supreme Court case Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992) is important because it

asserted that violations of Title IX of the 1972 Education Act could be remedied with monetary damages.

Which of the following civil liberties is included in Article III of the Constitution?

guarantee of trial by jury in state where crime was committed

Near v. Minnesota (1931) established the principle that

only under the most extraordinary circumstances could the government prevent the publication of newspapers and magazines

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court

prohibited states from making abortion a criminal act prior to the point at which the fetus becomes viable.

In the Bakke (1978) case, the Supreme Court ruled that

quotas and separate admissions standards for minorities were unconstitutional but affirmative action could be used.

The process by which the Supreme Court has expanded specific parts of the Bill of Rights to protect citizens against state and federal actions is called

selective incorporation.

During the late nineteenth century, the equal protection clause was

severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.

The so-called wall of separation between church and state is best found in which clause of the Constitution?

the establishment clause

In Maryland v. King (2012), the Supreme Court

upheld a policy of DNA testing of arrestees without providing evidence of individualized suspicion.