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Government Final
Coach Ponder's Governemt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Discuss the following concept: Social Darwinism vs. Government Mandated Equality | Social Darwinism: survivor of the fittest |
| Government of Equality: Minimal wage | |
| Discuss historical government discrimination imposed upon: Blacks in America. Use an example to support your answer | 12% of all American people |
| 10s of 1000s of Africans were kidnapped and were boarded upon vessels heading to America | |
| Discuss historical government discrimination imposed upon: Asians in America. Use an example to support your answer | Asians during WWII were sent to concentration camps for being suspected of being spies for Japan |
| Discuss historical government discrimination imposed upon: Whites in America. Use an example to support your answer | Some of us who have medical problems do not help one another |
| Discuss historical government discrimination imposed upon: Women in America. Use an example to support your answer | Women had to stay home and raise a family and cook clean |
| Discuss how the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment is used to discriminate today. Use an example to support your answer | Nothing can make people equal in a literal sense |
| List and explain the Civil War Amendments of the Constitution | 13th- does not forbid all forms of involuntary servitude |
| 14th-Equal Protection | |
| 15th-guarantees the right for blacks to vote | |
| Discuss why Hispanics are the largest minority. Use an example to support your answer | A lot of Mexicans are escaping the drug cartel in Mexico |
| Discuss the diversity of the nations fastest growing minority population. Use an example to support your answer | It depends how their nation’s economy is or whether its at war with a neighboring country |
| Discuss Reasonable Classification of people and government regulation of human behavior. Use an example to support your answer | Government have the power to classify to draw distinctions between persons and groups |
| Discuss why the 1955 Brown v. Board of Education ruling will be ruled as unconstitutional court acts by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Use an example to support your answer | The court ordered the States to end segregation “with all deliberate speed.” Federal district courts were ordered to supervise the desegregation process |
| Discuss the differences between de facto and de jure discrimination. Use an example to support your answer | de jure: segregation by law, with legal sanction |
| de facto: even if no law requires it | |
| Discuss the differences between jus soli and jus sanguinis. Provide an example of each | jus soli: the law of soil or where one is born |
| jus sanguinis: the law of blood, or to whom one is born | |
| List 4 Rules of Naturalization | 18 years of age |
| Entered the country legally, lived in U.S. for 5 years | |
| File petition for naturalization | |
| Be literate in English language | |
| Provide 2 examples of collective naturalization | Florida: 1819 |
| Alaska:1867 | |
| List and explain 2 ways to lose ones citizenship | Expropriation: can the legal process by which a loss of a citizenship occurs |
| denaturalization- can occur only by court order and only after it has been shown that the person | |
| Define: Due Process. Explain where your Due Process protections are found in the U.S. Constitution | Life, Liberty, Property |
| Government must act fairly, and in accord with established rules | |
| 5th and 14th amendment | |
| Explain and Provide one examples of: The Process of Incorporation | The court has answered that question in a long series of cases in which it has held that most (but not all) if the protections on the Bill of Rights are also covered by the 14th amendment’s Due Process Clause |
| List and explain 2 types of due process and provide an example of each type | Procedural |
| Substantive | |
| Provide an example where collective responsibility infringes upon individual civil liberties or the Bill of Rights | the province of the Bill of Rights apply against the National Government only |
| Explain the judicially active meaning of the “Right to Privacy” and how this inferred right infringes upon the civil liberties of the individual | Griswold |
| Roe | |
| Provide two examples of the inferred “Right of Privacy” | Staneley v. Georgia 1969 |
| Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 | |
| Provide an example of the exclusionary rule | evidence gained as a result of an illegal act by police cannot be used as the trial of the person from whom it was seized |
| Provide an example of probable cause | a police officer needs to see the drug to actual arrest you |
| Provide an example of a writ of habeas corpus | intended to prevent unjust arrests and imprisonment |
| Provide an example of Bills of Attainder | a legislative act that inflicts punishment without court trial |
| Explain the three 5th amendment protections and provide an example | by an information |
| an fending in which the prosecutor swears that there is enough evidence | |
| Explain the Miranda Rule and it’s critics | it would no longer uphold convictions in any cases in which suspects had not been told of their constitutional rights |
| police | |
| Define/Describe Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Provide an example of each | Civil Rights: 14th Amendment only for Government recognized groups Positive Acts of Government to even the playing field Gender, Sexuality |
| Civil Liberties: Bill of Rights Applies to all U.S. Citizens Delegated, expressed, limits on the federal government | |
| Explain the original intent of the Bill of Rights and provide an example | to protect the states from federal interference |
| the Bill of Rights was made pretty much right after the Civil War and there must have been many of slaves pushing for their rights that they were promised if the fought for the Union during the Civil War | |
| List and explain 2 Due Process amendments. Explain due process | 5th amendment: life, liberty, poverty; Denies federal and state government interference; Protects against Obamacare |
| 14th amendment: No state shall, U.S. Citizenship; Process of Incorporation? protects us against the State Government | |
| Explain the process of incorporation and provide an example | Gitlow v. New York (1925) Communist/Socialist Party of America Convicted in State Court: New York; treason and in violation of 1902 Criminal Anarchy Law Federal Espionage & Sedition Act of 1917/18 |
| Engle v. Vitale (1962) School Prayer and recitation of Regent’s Prayer banned Abington School Dist vs. Schempp (1963) | |
| Anti-Incorporation Rulings: Stone v. Graham (1980) post the ten commandments Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) Moment of Silence Santa Fe School vs. Doe (2000) prayer at football games | |
| Define obscenity. Explain how obscenity is regulated | average person applying contemporary communication standards, would find materials taken as a whole appeal to prurient interests |
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