Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Test Review

Question 1

What requires government officials use non-arbitrary methods before depriving a person of life, liberty, or property?

Accepted Answer

Procedural due process

Question 2

What does Alexander Hamilton argue in Federalist Paper No. 70?

Accepted Answer

The executive branch should have a single, energetic leader

Question 3

What amendments does the Miranda Rule connect to?

Accepted Answer

5th and 6th

Question 4

Which of the following is not considered a protected form of speech under the First Amendment?

Accepted Answer

Slander

Question 5

Social movements are based on which constitutional principle?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause

Question 6

What limits the Miranda rule and protection against self-incrimination?

Accepted Answer

Public safety exception

Question 7

The doctrine of selective incorporation is based on which constitutional provision?

Accepted Answer

The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment

Question 8

What did the Supreme Court rule in Wisconsin v. Yoder?

Accepted Answer

Students could not be compelled to attend school beyond the eighth grade

Question 9

What is the Tenth Amendment mostly associated with?

Accepted Answer

Federalism

Question 10

What prevents Congress from stopping somebody from practicing the religion of their choice and rituals?

Accepted Answer

Free Exercise Clause

Question 11

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 primarily aim to do?

Accepted Answer

End segregation and discrimination in public places and employment

Question 12

What was the primary purpose of the Bill of Rights?

Accepted Answer

To protect individual liberties from government overreach

Question 13

What banned discrimination by any school receives funding from the federal government?

Accepted Answer

Title IX of the Educational Amendments

Question 14

The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case dealt with?

Accepted Answer

Affirmative action policies in college admissions

Question 15

Which court case used selective incorporation to apply the right to an attorney to the states?

Accepted Answer

Gideon v. Wainwright

Question 16

Which court case used substantive due process to establish and incorporate the right of privacy?

Accepted Answer

Griswold v. Connecticut

Question 17

Plessy v. Ferguson upheld which legal doctrine?

Accepted Answer

Separate but equal

Question 18

What does the Establishment Clause prevent?

Accepted Answer

Government from establishing a national religion

Question 19

Which court case recognized an individual right to bear arms for the purpose of self-defense?

Accepted Answer

D.C. v. Heller

Question 20

What did the 9th Amendment establish?

Accepted Answer

Rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution still exist

Question 21

What banned literacy tests, and required certain states to get approval for changes in election policies?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 22

What constitutional principle forces businesses to comply with civil rights legislation?

Accepted Answer

Commerce Clause

Question 23

What does the Eighth Amendment protect individuals from?

Accepted Answer

Cruel and unusual punishment

Question 24

In Brutus No. 1, what did the author express concern about?

Accepted Answer

A strong central government threatening freedoms and state sovereignty

Question 25

What is the exclusionary rule?

Accepted Answer

Evidence obtained illegally cannot be used in court

Question 26

Which court case applied the clear and present danger test and time, place, and manner principle?

Accepted Answer

Schenck v. United States

Question 27

Which constitutional principle applies to McDonald v. Chicago?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment's Due Process Clause

Question 28

What determined that the substantive due process privacy right extended to abortions?

Accepted Answer

Roe v. Wade

Question 29

What does Martin Luther King Jr. argue in Letter from a Birmingham Jail?

Accepted Answer

Civil disobedience must be used to combat unjust and immoral laws

Question 30

What empowers the federal government to protect groups from discrimination by states and private citizens?

Accepted Answer

Civil rights

Question 31

What did Federalist Paper No. 51 emphasize?

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Maintaining a system of checks and balances and separation of powers

Question 32

What was the constitutional issue at stake in Engel v. Vitale?

Accepted Answer

Whether state-sponsored prayer in public schools was permitted

Question 33

In Federalist Paper No. 10, what did James Madison argue?

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A large republic is best at controlling the negative effects of factions

Question 34

Which court case recognized same-sex marriages as a fundamental right?

Accepted Answer

Obergefell v. Hodges

Question 35

What prevents the federal government from infringing on people's individual liberties and freedoms?

Accepted Answer

Civil liberties

Question 36

What gives preferential treatment to members of historically disadvantaged groups?

Accepted Answer

Affirmative action, Miranda Rights

Question 37

The Court’s decision in Tinker v. Des Moines primarily addressed?

Accepted Answer

The wearing of armbands as symbolic speech in public schools

Question 38

Which of the following protections is not found in the Fifth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

The right to a speedy trial

Question 39

The Supreme Court’s decision in New York Times Co. v. U.S. upheld which principle?

Accepted Answer

The press’s right to publish classified material

Question 40

What placed limitations on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata?

Accepted Answer

Freedom Act

Question 41

Which case overturned Roe v. Wade holding that there is not a substantive due process right to an abortion?

Accepted Answer

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Question 42

What does Federalist Paper No. 78 focus on?

Accepted Answer

The importance of an independent judiciary and the power of judicial review

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