GOPO Unit Three Test

Which U.S. Supreme Court case found that a woman’s right to have an abortion is protected by the implied constitutional right to privacy?

• a. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
• b. Lawrence v. Texas
• c. Miranda v. Arizona
• d. Roe v. Wade

What did the Supreme Court determine was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of ducation?

• a. school integration
• b. poll taxes
• c. school segregation
• d. unequal school funding

What provision of the Fourteenth Amendment served as a cornerstone of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

• a. the all men are created equal clause
• b. the equal protection clause
• c. the privileges and immunities clause
• d. the grandfather clause

Today, the United States is the only western country to use which of the following to punish crime?

• a. victim impact statements
• b. juries
• c. recidivism
• d. the death penalty

The double jeopardy clause prevents an individual who is acquitted of a crime from which of the following?

• a. seeking the assistance of an attorney
• b. being tried again for the same crime
• c. civil penalties
• d. asserting innocence

The free exercise clause guarantees that the national government will not interfere with which of the following?

• a. education
• b. religion
• c. business
• d. speech

__________ make an act punishable as a crime even if the act was legal when it was committed. These are prohibited by Article I of the Constitution.

• a. Writs of habeas corpus
• b. Bills of attainder
• c. Ex post facto laws
• d. Prior restraints

What does the Sixth Amendment guarantee to those accused of a crime?

• a. assistance of counsel
• b. the right to parole
• c. reasonable bail
• d. a written indictment

The “right to remain silent” is a citizen’s protection against which of the following?

• a. habeas corpus
• b. search and seizure
• c. self-incrimination
• d. a biased jury

The provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits any state from denying “any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” is known as the __________ clause.

• a. due process
• b. privileges and immunities
• c. grandfather
• d. equal protection