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US Gov Part 1 test 2
civil liberties and civil rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person treating the U.S. flag contemptuously is | protected under the Constitution |
| Conflicts in civil liberties often arise because | Conflicting, or competing, rights |
| The Espionage and Sedition Acts were largely stimulated by fears of | Violent protests against government |
| An example of how entrepreneurial politics can enter the realm of civil liberties is that of | The Federalists and The Sedition Act |
| Senator Joe McCarthy became a powerful policy entrepreneur by claiming that | Soviet agents had infiltrated the U.S. government |
| Usually, the Supreme Court has reacted to wartime curtailments of civil liberties by | Siding with Congress |
| In the 1980s, sedition laws were enforced against | white supremacists and Puerto Rican nationalists |
| The earliest immigrant group to arrive in large numbers and thus alter the scope of civil rights issues | Irish Catholics |
| The immigrant group usually associated with the drive for bilingual education is composed of | Hispanics |
| The Bill of Rights has come to apply to the states through the interpretation of | The Fourteenth Amendment |
| The earliest incorporations of portions of the Bill of Rights relied on | Selective incorporation |
| Which term best describes the manner in which the Supreme Court has applied the Bill of Rights to the states? | Fundamental rights |
| What does the First Amendment address | The freedom of expression and the freedom of religion |
| The Espionage and Sedition Acts that were passed in 1917 and 1918 placed restrictions on publications that | Advocated treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance |
| The Supreme Court justice who compared unpopular political speech to falsely shouting “Fire!” in a theatre was | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| When eleven communists were convicted under the Smith Act of 1940, the Supreme Court | Implemented the “Gravity of Evil” doctrine |
| Written defamation of character is known as | Libel |
| Slander differs from libel in that it refers to | Oral defamation |
| Which justice argued that obscenity is a form of speech that is, or should be, protected by the First Amendment | Hugo Black |
| Justice Potter Stewart's oft-quoted dictum on hard-core as opposed to soft-core pornography was | “I know it when I see it” |
| The 1973 Supreme Court definition of obscenity denies free speech protection to materials or activities that | Are patently offensive by community standards |
| The right of free expression, although not absolute, enjoys a higher status than the other rights granted by the US Constitution. This is the known doctrine of | Preferred position |
| One form of symbolic speech permitted by the supreme court is | Flag burning |
| Symbolic speech, as defined by the text, is | An act that conveys a political message |
| The two clauses of the First Amendment that deal with religion are concerned with | Free-exercise of religion and establishment of religion |
| For the Supreme Court to uphold conscientious objection to military service, that objection must be rooted in | Deeply held moral beliefs |
| The historical source for the “wall of separation” between religion and the state is | Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 |
| Since 1992, a member of the clergy offering a prayer or invocation at a public school graduation ceremony is | Unconstitutional |
| The Supreme Court has struck down laws that require the teaching of the theory of | Creationism |
| The argument that tainted evidence cannot be used in court if citizens’ rights are to be maintained leads to what is called | Exclusionary rule |
| The exclusionary rule was not applied to state law enforcement officers until | 1961 |
| The Court demanded that the evidence obtained in Mappy v. Ohio be excluded because the police | The police did not obtain a search warrant, i.e. illegal search and seizure |
| Search warrants are signed (issued) by | Judges |
| Search warrants are not to be issued unless the standard of _________ has been met | Probable cause |
| Police may legally search persons for evidence either when they have a search warrant or when | A person has been lawfully arrested |
| The desk and files of a government employee may legitimately be searched by a supervisor without a warrant, provided that | They are looking for something related to your work |
| The landmark case on involuntary confession was that of | Miranda |
| A person being arrested must be informed of which rights | Their Miranda rights |
| In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled that illegally obtained evidence might be used in court if it can be demonstrated that | That it is a good-faith exception |
| The USA Patriot Act requires _______ for a government tap on telephones or the Internet | a court order |
| Under the USA Patriot Act, the attorney general can hold any noncitizen who is thought to be a national security risk for up to _____ days | seven |
| Suspected terrorists are to be tried by a military, rather than a civilian, court as a result of | An executive order issued by President George W. Bush |
| When we caught Nazi spies who were sent to America, we classified them as ________ and tried them accordingly | Unlawful combatants |
| In late 2006, national newspapers revealed a secret program to intercept telephone calls and e-mails; the program was being conducted by the | National Security Agency (NSA) |
| The Supreme Court has decided that any law classifying people on the basis of race or ethnicity is | A suspect classification, and therefore unreasonable |
| Blacks were finally able to advance their interests during the 1950s and 1960s in part by | Widening their support base and taking their cause to the federal courts |
| The _________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution appeared to guarantee equal rights for blacks. | Fourteenth |
| In a critical 1883 decision, the Supreme Court distinguished between ________ racial discrimination | public and private |
| Plessy v Ferguson had the effect of | Implementing the “separate but equal” doctrine |
| One reason the NAACP’s strategy of using the courts to further black civil rights worked was that it | It enabled the organization to remain nonpartisan |
| The importance of the Brown v Board of Education civil rights case was that the Supreme Court | Used ambiguous rationale to promote harmony |
| Southern resistance to integration of the schools finally collapsed in the | 1970s |
| In order to discourage segregation, federal laws began to | Withhold financial aid to segregated schools |
| As its rational for the decision in Brown, the Supreme Court relied primarily on | social science studies |
| The difference between de facto and de jure segregation is that | De jure is required by law, de facto is the result of social patterns |
| The principle of mandating busing plans to remedy school segregation patterns was approved in the case of | Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education |
| Rosa Parks had a tremendous impact on the civil rights movement when she attended | A bus boycott meeting |
| The philosophy of civil disobedience suggests that there is value to | Peacefully violating the law |
| One factor helping to break the deadlock that developed in the civil rights movement during the early 1960s was the | “March on Washington” |
| “Bull” Connor of Birmingham, Alabama, became a symbol of | Violent white segregationists |
| The most comprehensive civil rights legislation was enacted in | 1964 |
| A key to the passage of major civil rights laws was the breaking of the Senate filibuster with | The invocation of cloture |
| A black person has the highest chance of attaining elective office as a | A Democrat |
| The _______ Amendment made clear that no state many deny the right to vote on the basis of sex | Nineteenth |
| In the Virginia Military Institute case, the Court required ____________ for single sex schools | private funding |
| In the case of Rostker v. Goldberg, the Supreme Court held that | Congress can draft men without drafting women |
| In 1965, the Supreme Court found an invasion of a “zone of privacy” when a state attempted to prevent the sale of | Contraceptives |
| The Court has argued that the right to privacy can be found in _________ of the provisions in the Bill of Rights | Penumbras, shadows |
| Under the Court’s decision in Roe, a woman has an unfettered right to an abortion | During the first trimester |
| Under the Court’s decision in Roe, states may ban abortions | Done in the third trimester |
| The Hyde Amendment barred the use of federal funds for abortions | Except when the life of the mother is at stake |
| The text suggests that the Court began to uphold state restrictions on abortion in the late 1980s under the influence of justices appointed by | President Ronald Reagan |
| A supporter of equality of opportunity as a way of redressing past civil rights inequities would be most likely to advocate | Reverse discrimination |
| Supporters of equality of opportunity tend to have _______ beliefs | Orthodox |
| Looking over the Supreme Court’s affirmative action cases, one sees that the Court | Is indecisive |
| The Supreme Court ruled in the Bakke case that | Diversity was desirable, but should not be achieved through quotas |
| Unlike the Civil Rights Act, the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) considers | “undue hardship” |
| The Supreme Court’s position on quotas for minorities can best be described as | contradictory |
| Regarding preferential treatment of minorities in the areas of hiring and university admissions, the majority of those polled | Were against it |
| In a 2003 case involving admissions practices at the University of Michigan, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its decision in Bakke by rejecting the use of a(n) | quota |
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