Exam 4: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

A) warrant
B) exclusionary
C) Miranda
D) ex post facto

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A) rejected mechanical point systems for university admissions but upheld highly individualized affirmative action policies that were designed to promote diversity.
B) upheld mechanical point systems for university admissions but rejected highly individualized affirmative action policies.
C) rejected all affirmative action policies in university admissions.
D) asserted that affirmative action policies are subject to strict scrutiny.

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A) Self-incrimination
B) Double jeopardy
C) Unreasonable seizures
D) Cruel and unusual punishment

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A) had little effect on housing segregation because its enforcement mechanisms were
Very weak.
B) had little effect on housing segregation because it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1969.
C) dramatically increased housing segregation.
D) dramatically reduced housing segregation.

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A) the issue of government-sponsored religion has not yet been definitively settled.
B) there are different opinions about the establishment clause and whether it should apply to states as well as the federal government.
C) the free exercise clause has still not been incorporated through the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) the Lemon test does not apply to cases involving school prayer.

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A) that immigrants carry identity papers
B) that local police check the immigration status of an individual detained for other reasons if there are grounds to suspect that the person was in the country illegally
C) that undocumented immigrants cannot apply for jobs
D) that police can stop persons they suspect of being undocumented immigrants

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A) a law criminalizing abortion.
B) access to birth control.
C) the right to die.
D) sodomy laws.

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A) slander
B) obscenity
C) libel
D) political speech that stops short of inciting violence

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A) to legal counsel in felony cases.
B) against self-incrimination.
C) against suspicionless searches and seizures.
D) to an open trial before a judge.

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A) public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were unconstitutional because they discriminated against African Americans.
B) public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were unconstitutional because they discriminated against whites.
C) public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were constitutional.
D) state-imposed desegregation could only be brought about by busing children across school districts.

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A) "sine qua non" harassment.
B) "quid pro quo" harassment.
C) de jure harassment.
D) de facto harassment.

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A) laws passed in the 1790s that made it a crime to say or publish anything that would defame the government of the United States
B) laws that made it a crime for foreign immigrants to belong to the Communist Party or other anti-American organizations
C) laws passed during the Civil War denying Confederate sympathizers the right to free speech
D) a law passed by Congress in 1921 that restricted immigration to the United States

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A) prohibition of ex post facto laws
B) prohibition of bills of attainder
C) prohibition of government "taking" private property "without just compensation"
D) guarantee of habeas corpus

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There are four components to this questi...

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A) de facto
B) de jure
C) stare decisis
D) suspect

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A) ending all deportations of undocumented immigrants.
B) providing full citizenship to millions of individuals who entered the United States illegally as children or who have children who are American citizens.
C) providing voting rights and health care benefits to all undocumented immigrants.
D) granting quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of individuals who entered the United States illegally as children or who have children who are American citizens.

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A) Amish children are not required to attend school past the age of 12.
B) children cannot be required to salute the flag if it violates their religious faith.
C) school officials are permitted greater authority to censor speech and expression than would be permissible off school grounds.
D) prayer in school violates the establishment clause.

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A) The Supreme Court has ruled that high school students have more freedom of speech rights than adults and their speech can never be regulated in any way.
B) The Supreme Court has ruled that high school students have exactly the same free speech rights as adults.
C) The Supreme Court has ruled that high school students have conditionally protected speech that can be constitutionally regulated under certain circumstances.
D) The Supreme Court has ruled that high school students have no free speech rights at all and their speech can be regulated in any way government sees fit.

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