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The Fourth Amendment's purpose was to deny the national government the authority to conduct general searches. |
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At times, the Supreme Court allows the use of hallucinogenic drugs for use in religious observances.
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Ture
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In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been more likely to allow the mingling of church and state.
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True
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In Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply the First Amendment protection of freedom of speech to the states.
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True
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The Federalists put forward the idea of a Bill of Rights in order to protect the liberty of individual citizens from the state governments
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Flase
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Griswold v. Connecticut involved ____________________
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Birth Control
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The European Union has made it illegal to make statements that deny or trivialize the Holocaust. If such a law were passed in the United States, how would the Supreme Court likely respond?
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The Court would likely overturn the law because the First Amendment prevents the government from silencing speech on the basis of its content.
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The Eighth Amendment prohibits ____________________.
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cruel and unusual punishment
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Who is least likely to be eligible to serve on a jury?
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those who have prejudiced a case
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In Weeks v. U.S., the Supreme Court barred the use of ____________________.
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illegally seized evidence at trial
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The right to a grand jury; the prohibition against depriving life, liberty, or property without due process; the right against self-incrimination; and the prohibition against eminent domain seizures without fair compensation are all found under which Amendment?
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5th Amendment
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Which of the following can the police search without a warrant?
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Farmer's fields containing "No Trespassing" signs
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During the Civil War, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which normally provides for what right?
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The right to a court determination that you are being held lawfully
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The main reason states may not deny their citizens the right to assemble peaceably is that ____________________.
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Amendment's freedom to assemble.
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Which of the following is a limit on the First Amendment's freedom of speech?
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speech that poses a clear and present danger
libel and slander obscenity fighting words |
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Free speech zones on college campuses ____________________.
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restrict the time, place, and manner of speech on some college campuses.
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The Supreme Court first ruled that symbolic speech was protected by the First Amendment in ____________________.
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Stromberg v. California
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Which test upheld the Espionage Act of WWI, which prohibited distributing anti-war leaflets during wartime?
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The clear and present danger test
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The First Amendment covers which of the following?
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Assembly
Religion Speech Press |
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According to protesters Jim Webber and Tom Griner, how did Clark County, Nevada, violate their civil liberties?
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They were singled out for the religious nature of their message.
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________ According to the Supreme Court, which of the following practices violate the establishment clause? Student-led prayers at high school football games Prayer in school. Organized prayers at public school graduations. Providing sign language teachers for students in religious schools.
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I, II ,and III
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Which judicial doctrine has applied most but not all of the Bill of Rights to the states through case law?
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selective incorporation
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The Supreme Court first ruled that states were not completely free to limit forms of political expression in ____________________.
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Gitlow v. New York
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Which of the rights has not been incorporated?
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Right to bear arms
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Personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge by law or judicial interpretation are known as ____________________.
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Civil Liberties
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on ____________________.
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race, creed, color, and religion
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Which of the following best describes the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice?
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Evidence points to considerable politicization of the division.
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Why did northern senators initially oppose adding Missouri to the union?
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Missouri would be a slave state
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Where does the Constitution discuss equality?
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Fourteenth ammendment
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Why did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton become frustrated with the abolitionist movement?
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Many abolitionists supported the Fifteenth Amendment even though it did not guarantee women's rights.
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Laws enacted by southern states that resulted in segregation by race were also known as ____________________.
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Jim Crow Laws
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The Niagara Movement was concerned with
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Womans suffrage
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George McLaurin challenged the constitutionality of ______
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separate but equal graduate education.
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In 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began after ________ refused to give up his/her seat on a public bus
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Rosa Parks
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________ led the longest filibuster in U.S. history in an effort to block passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Strom Thrumond
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President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women was headed by ____________________.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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When was the Equal Rights Amendment added to the Constitution?
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The Equal Rights Amendment was not ratified by enough states and did not become part of the Constitution.
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As early as 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that ____________________.
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some freedoms were so fundamental that any restrictions needed the strictest level of scrutiny to be considered constitutional.
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The primary purpose of which of the following groups is to lobby and litigate on behalf of Hispanic Americans?
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MALDEF
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On May 1, 2006, more than a million people rallied in cities across the nation to __________________
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draw attention to the plight of immigrants.
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In their fight for civil rights, what advantage have gays and lesbians had over other minorities?
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They have higher average levels of income and education.
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What protections are afforded to gays and lesbians by the state of Nebraska? A hate crime law provides stiffer penalties for crimes motivated by sexual orientation. A job discrimination law prohibits discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation. Same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples. A real estate law prohibits sellers from disclosing the sexual orientation of their neighbors to prospective buyers.
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I
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Which of the following best describes the accessibility of colleges and universities to students with disabilities?
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Many educational institutions have not made their facilities fully accessible to those with disabilities.
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Advocates for a living wage ___________________
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believe that wages should be enough to provide for a satisfactory standard of living.
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Who is more likely to support affirmative action
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Someone who believes that the government should ensure equality of results
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Under the George W. Bush administration, prosecution for gender and race discrimination has nearly doubled.
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False
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The Constitution narrowly defined equality until the addition of the Civil War Amendments.
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True
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The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to increase civil rights.
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True
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Women were granted the right to vote at the same time as African Americans.
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False
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Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer for the NAACP, was later appointed the first African American to the U.S. Supreme Court
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True
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and all federal statutes prohibiting discrimination are ____________________.
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enforced by the civil rights division of the Justice Department.
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During the George W. Bush administration, key enforcement priorities of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division included __________________
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immigration and deportion
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________ addressed the first major national crisis over slavery.
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Missouri Compromise
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Abolitionists worked towards ___________________
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ending slavery
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The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively known as the ______
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Civil War ammendments
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In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court determined that ___________________
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private citizens can discriminate on the basis of race.
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Members of the __________ were arrested for protesting in front of the White House in an attempt to secure the right to vote for women.
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National Womans Party
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To comply with the "separate but equal" doctrine, Texas passed legislation creating the Texas State University for Negroes. According to the Supreme Court, why would a law degree from this new program be unequal to a law degree offered by the University of Texas?
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he quality of a law degree is heavily influenced by a university's reputation.
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The 1954 Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy was ____________________.
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Brown v. Board of Education.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to ________ in order to protect African American students seeking entry into Little Rock's Central High School.
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send federal troops to Arkansas
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A hallmark of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s strategy to achieve equality was ____________________
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Civil disobedience
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The longest filibuster in U.S. history was an attempt to block passage of ____________________
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Civil Rights act of 1964
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The Equal Rights Amendment would have provided ____________________.
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that no state or Congress could deny or abridge equal rights on account of gender.
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Legal distinctions based on which of the following classifications are most likely to receive strict scrutiny from the Supreme Court?
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Race
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Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to the Civil Rights Act prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funds from discriminating ____________________.
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against female students.
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________ is the largest Hispanic group in the United States.
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The League of United Latin American Citizens
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A key MALDEF legal victory was ____________________
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the finding that multimember electoral districts were unconstitutional.
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Which of the following groups has been the least successful in pursuing their civil rights claims?
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gays and lesbians
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In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that ____________________.
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states could not prohibit sodomy
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In 1978, the Supreme Court first addressed the issue of affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. They ruled that ___________________
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race could be taken into account, but strict quotas were unconstitutional
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 attempted to make slavery illegal in all states north of a specific geographical boundary.
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The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery.
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True
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The doctrine of "separate but equal" was promulgated by the Civil Rights Cases (1883).
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False
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The women's suffrage amendment passed in 1920
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The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education overturned its earlier separate-but-equal ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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True
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