Unit 3: Civil Rights and Liberties Test

Most criminal cases are settled through:

• pauper's petitions

• judicial tribunals

• plea bargaining

• trial by a judge

• trial by jury

To prevent abuse of police power, the Fourth Amendment requires that no court may issue

unless probable cause exists to believe that a crime has occurred or is about to occur.

• an exclusionary rule

• a writ of habeas corpus

• a prior restraint

• a search warrant

• an injunction

The Supreme Court struck down the use of racial quotas for affirmative action in which of the following cases?

• Texas v. Johnson

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Baker v. Carr

• Griswold v. Connecticut

The incorporation doctrine involves:

• the use of judicial review by state courts

• the government's power to regulate corporations

• the procedures for creating a city government

• application of the Bill of Rights to the states

• the interpretation of the commerce clause

The decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) was justified by the Supreme Court largely on the grounds of:

• new advances in medical technology

• the right of privacy implied in the Bill of Rights

• our constitutional right to life

• the free exercise clause of the First Amendment

• the freedom of religion clause of the First Amendment

The establishment clause concerns:

• Assembly

• Petition

• Press

• Religion

• Speech

In the past century, the Fourteenth Amendment has been used to:

• require that states abide by all provisions of the Bill of Rights

• extend the right to vote to women and 18-year- olds

• gradually apply the Bill of Rights to the states

• limit the national government's ability to interfere in matters affecting individual states

• allow state governments to interfere in national affairs

The courts have used to prevent illegally seized evidence from being introduced into the courtroom.

• the Miranda rule

• prior restraint

• search warrants

• probable cause

• the exclusionary rule

In the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion:

• restrictions could be imposed by states if they did not involve "undue burdens" on the women seeking abortions

• could not be restricted or regulated

• must be funded by state governments when the mother cannot afford it

• could be completely outlawed by individual states

• funding by any level of government was unconstitutional

The Fifth Amendment protects citizens against which of the following?

I. Illegal Search and Seizure

II. Testifying against oneself

III. Double Jeopardy

IV. Taking of one’s property without just compensation

V. Denial of Due Process of law

• I and II

• I, II and III

• II only

• II and IV

• II, III, IV, and V