Finals Review

The practice of the police reading someone their rights when they are arrested comes from which Supreme Court Case?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Miranda v. Arizona

Who nominates an individual to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court?

• Speaker of the House

• President Pro Tempore

• The President

• Senate Majority Leader

Which case found that school-led prayer violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution?

• Engel v. Vitale

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Gideon v. Wainwright

This was the first Supreme Court case to decide individuals had a right to bear arms.

• McDonald v. Chicago

• District of Columbia v. Heller

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

Which amendment proclaims that a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state?

• 5th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, finding that "separate but equal" was inherently unequal.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Tinker v. Dew Moines

• Roe v. Wade

This amendment was originally intended to give citizenship to the formerly enslaved.

• 14th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 8th Amendment

This case determined that illegally seized evidence could not be used in a criminal trial.

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• New York Times v. United States

This allows the Supreme Court to determine whether laws are constitutional.

• Legal Precedent

• Judicial Review

• Judicial Restraint

• Jurisdiction

The Senate needs a 2/3 majority to confirm a new justice to the Supreme Court.

• True

• False