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WorksheetsChapter 4 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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1.
Which of the following rights was not included in the original Constitution?
a)
prohibition of bills of attainder
b)
prohibition of ex post facto laws
c)
guarantee of habeas corpus
d)
prohibition of warrantless search and seizure
2.
When did civil rights become part of the Constitution?
a)
in 1789 at the Founding
b)
with the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868
c)
with adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920
d)
in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case
3.
The process by which some of liberties in the Bill of Rights were applied to the states (or nationalized) is known as
a)
selective incorporation
b)
judicial activism
c)
civil liberties
d)
establishment
4.
The judicial doctrine that places a heavy burden of proof on the government when it seeks to regulate or restrict speech is called
a)
judicial restraint
b)
habeas corpus
c)
prior restraint
d)
strict scruitiny
5.
Which of the following protections are not contained in the First Amendment
a)
the establishment clause
b)
the free exercise clause
c)
freedom of the press
d)
freedom from unlawful searches and seizures
6.
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth amendments taken together, define
a)
due process of law
b)
free speech
c)
the right to bear arms
d)
civil rights of minorites
7.
In which case did the Supreme Court rule that state governments no longer has the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime?
a)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
b)
Gonzalez v. Oregon
c)
Lawrence v. Texas
d)
Texas v. Johnson
8.
In Mapp v. Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled that
a)
evidence obtained from an illegal search could not be introduced in a trial
b)
the government must provede lefal counsel for defendents who are too poor to provide for themselves
c)
persons under arrest must be informed prior to police interrogations of thier rights to remain sulent and to have the benefits of legal counsel
d)
a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime
9.
Which of the following was not a way the Twenty-Fourth Amendment of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1965 significantly extended and protected voting rights?
a)
barring literacy tests as a condition for voting in six southern states
b)
requiring that all voters to register two weeks before any federal election
c)
providing for the replacement of local registrars with federally registered registrars in counties designated as significantly resistant to registering eligible black voters
d)
abolishing the poll tax
10.
The Supreme Court's decision in Bakke v. Regents was significant because
a)
it stated that race can never be used as a factor in university admissions
b)
it stated that achieving diversity was a "compelling public purpose" but a ridged quota system based on race was incompatible with the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause
c)
it permitted quotas and separate university admission standard for members of minority groups
d)
it declared that affirmative action policies would no longer be subject to strict scrutiny fro the courts.
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