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