AP Govt Ch 4 Civil Liberties Questions #3
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- Q1The clear and present danger test is designed to determine when guarantees of which amendment can be limited?First AmendmentSecond AmendmentFourth AmendmentFifth Amendment30s
- Q2Physician-assisted suicide has been _______allowed only in the state of Vermontdeemed constitutional when a living will states a person's specific request to terminate life-sustaining treatmentdeemed constitutional by the Supreme Court under the right to privacydetermined by the Supreme Court to be an issue best handled by each state30s
- Q3After the Supreme Court's decision in Miranda v. Arizona, a few states and the federal government train to void the decision with legislation. The Supreme Court later revised Miranda and ruled that _____states could limit the Sixth Amendment provision of the Miranda decision, but not those of the Fifth Amendmentstates could limit the Fifth Amendment provisions of the Miranda decision, but not those of the Sixth AmendmentMiranda was constitutionally based and could not be overturned by statuteit had erred on the constitutional basis of Miranda30s
- Q4Tinker v. Des Moines School District established the constitutional protection for __________silent prayer in public schoolcensorship of high-school newspaperssymbolic speechrepresentational speech30s
- Q5In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court held that states __________cannot limit a woman's right to seek an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancycan place significant restrictions on a woman's right to seek an abortion at any state of pregnancycan outlaw all abortionscan outlaw abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy30s
- Q6Commercial speech is usually _______defined as advertising stateementsdefined as the electronic communication of words or symbolsdefined as any form of expression for which the author is paiddefined as any nonpolitical speech30s
- Q7The case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey saith that states ___________cannot place an undue burden on a woman seeking an abortioncan require a woman to undergo counseling designed to discourage the abortioncan require a woman to notify her spouse before the abortioncannot outlaw aborition30s
- Q8The exclusionary rule established by the Supreme Court supported the position that _____law enforcement officers must knock before they enter a house with a search warrantwitnesses to a crime may testify for a trial on videotape rather than in persona suspect may withhold information from law enforcement offers when a lawyer is not present during interrogationevidence obtained that goes beyond the stated purpose of a search warrant may not be used in court30s
- Q9The right to privacy is _______explicitly referenced in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitutionnot explicitly referenced in the Constitutionexplicitly referenced in the Preamble to the Constitutionexplicitly referenced in Article X of the Constitution30s
- Q10The view that most of the liberties and rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are protected from state government actions through the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause is known as the _____supremacy theoryincorporation theorysystemic exclusion schemestate restrictions exclusion30s
- Q11The constitutional doctrine of prior restraint _______permits a judge to withhold information about a court case from release to the public or pressinvolves protection of speech accompanied by peaceful demonstration or assemblyrequires a waiting period prior to broadcast during which government officials may review corporate advertisingprohibits government agencies from trying to prevent publication of material by the press except under extraordinary circumstances30s
- Q12In Aguilar v. Felton (1985) the Supreme Court ruled that state programs providing special educational services to disadvantaged students attending religious schools violated the establishment clause. Twelve years later in Agostini v. Felton (1997) the Court ruled the tAguilar was "no longer good law." What changed between 1985 and 1997?The solicitor general of the United States argued that Aguilar deprived disadvantaged students of their rights under the equal protection clauseSix of the nine justices who decided Aguilar were no longer on the Supreme Court in 1997Two presidents lobbied the Supreme Court to Change it decisionThe solicitor general of the United state argued that Aguilar deprived disadvantaged students of their rights under the due process clause30s
- Q13The Bill of Rights addressed the powers of the national government because _______state laws were supreme over those of the national governmentpolitical parties had not yet been createdstate governments possessed absolute powerpeople feared the potential tyranny of the national government30s
- Q14Which of the following statements best describes the tension, as outlined in the First Amendment between the establishment and the free exercise clauses?School vouchers have repeatedly been found to be unconstitutional because they are used to fund private parochial schools with state tax dollars, a clear violation of the free exercise clauseTeaching evolution has been found to be unconstitutional because it violates the establishment clausePublic universities must allow religious groups to form on campus under the free exercise clause but may decide not to fund the groups because of the Supreme Court's prohibition, under the establishment clause, against supporting religion.The Supreme Court has ruled that, under the free exercise clause, students can use the public address systems at graduations and sporting events to lead school prayer30s
- Q15A component of the Lemon test includes determining whether _________government involvement advances a particular religionthe government has a compelling state interestthe government has the ability to tax religious propertygovernments can force businesses with strong religious ideals to provide birth control to employees30s