Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties Quiz

Which doctrine extended select protections of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Judicial Review

• Selective Incorporation

• Prior Restraint

• Habeas Corpus

What term refers to constitutionally established guarantees that protect citizens from arbitrary government interference?

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

• Habeas Corpus

• Judicial Review

Written communication of defamation is called:

• Libel

• Slander

• Prior Restraint

• Obscenity

Which law expanded surveillance abilities after 9/11?

• USA Freedom Act

• Patriot Act

• Espionage Act

• Sedition Act

Which clause prohibits the establishment of an official religion?

• Free Exercise Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Supremacy Clause

• Commerce Clause

What rule states that illegally seized evidence cannot be used in court?

• Exclusionary Rule

• Prior Restraint

• Habeas Corpus

• Miranda Rule

Which Amendment granted citizenship and applied Due Process and Equal Protection to states?

• Fifth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• First Amendment

• Ninth Amendment

Regulations that limit when and where protests occur are called:

• Prior Restraint

• Time, Place, Manner

• Establishment Clause

• Selective Incorporation

Which case involved students wearing armbands to protest war?

• Schenck v. United States

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

• New York Times v. United States

Which case limited government’s ability to use prior restraint on the press?

• New York Times v. United States

• Schenck v. United States

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Wisconsin v. Yoder