QB 2 Civics 2022-23 #3

The diagram below shows the goals of government set forth in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.   Which phrase completes the diagram?

• To establish the best education system

• To provide for the common defense

• To maintain international order

• To promote full employment

The passage below is from the Federalist No. 47, written by James Madison in 1788. ...Montesquieu was guided... in saying "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body"... he did not mean that these departments ought to have ... no CONTROL over, the acts of each other. Based on this passage, which constitutional principle does Madison describe?

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

• judicial review

Read the following summary and answer the question below. Which statement best describes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in this case?

• It gave parents the right to choose their children's schools in Kansas.

• It gave parents the right to sue their children's school districts in Kansas.

• It created racially separate schools of equal quality in the United States.

• It made it illegal to create racially segregated schools in the United States.

How does this image illustrate the effects of later amendments to the Constitution?

• It shows people paying a poll tax, which Southern states instituted in response to the Fifteenth Amendment.

• It shows poor people voting, which they could not have done before the Twenty-fourth Amendment repealed the poll tax.

• It shows women, African Americans, and a young person voting, which would not have been possible without the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth Amendments.

• It shows women and African Americans receiving due process and equal protection of the laws in a state election, which were guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment.

The passage below provides background information about a constitutional amendment. Which amendment is described above? 

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which is an individual right protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

• speedy trial

• own guns

• privacy

• speech

Why did the authors of the U.S. Constitution make it more difficult to amend the U.S. Constitution than to pass an ordinary law?

• They believed the system of government should only be changed with overwhelming support.

• They wanted to make the system of government more responsive to popular needs.

• They did not want any one branch of government to become too powerful.

• They borrowed this practice from the historical traditions of Great Britain.

Which landmark supreme court case allowed for a person accused of a crime no matter how poor has the right to an attorney during trial. Enforces the 6^th Amendment.

• United States v. Nixon

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer explanation

Remember Gideon v. Wainwright = right to a lawyer (attorney)

Which landmark supreme court case allowed for the censorship (blocking) of materials / stories written in school newspapers?

• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer explanation

Remember censorship in schools = Hazelwood

Which landmark supreme court case allowed suspects to not be questioned (interrogated) until they are informed of their rights (right to remain silent, right to an attorney, etc.)

• District of Columbia v. Heller

• Bush v. Gore

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Marbury v. Madison

Answer explanation

Remember Miranda v. Arizona = "Miranda" (constitutional) rights read to you