Political Science Test 2 Set 3

Front 1

* Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion
* To protect against the establishment of a state church or religion

Back 1

the establishment clause

Front 2

To protect the free press from governmental censorship or coercion

Back 2

free speech clause

Front 3

---------- in the constitution tend to take the form of negative restraints on government

Back 3

civil liberties

Front 4

To protect against unreasonable searches and seizures by the State

Back 4

the fourth amendment

Front 5

What rule includes searches not requiring warrants or probable cause.

Back 5

The exclusionary rule

Front 6

These amendments limit the powers of the federal government, protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory.

Back 6

Bill of rights

Front 7

1. Sobriety Checkpoints
2. Border Crossings
3. Airport searches
4. Drug testing-
5. Student Searches
6. Consent searches

Back 7

don't require probable cause

Front 8

1. Searches incident to a lawful arrest
2. plain view
3. Hot pursuit
4. automobiles
5. Emergency situations

Back 8

don't require warrants

Front 9

which states that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent of one another.

Back 9

separation of church and state doctrine

Front 10

struck down prayer in public schools.

Back 10

Engel V. Vitale (1962

Front 11

provide important protections for the criminally accused when taken to trial.

Back 11

fifth amendment

Front 12

was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Pennsylvania's 1968 Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which allowed the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to reimburse nonpublic schools (most of which were Catholic) for teachers' salaries, textbooks and instructional materials, violated the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.

Back 12

lemon v kurtzman

Front 13

The government's action must have a legitimate secular purpose;
The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion;
The government's action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion

Back 13

the lemon test

Front 14

In federal felony cases, the constitution requires that a------must first investigate teh prosecution's case to determine if enough evidence exists to warrant prosecution

Back 14

grand jury

Front 15

prohibits retrying of a case in which the accused has been acquitted innocent

Back 15

double jeopardy