Gov study guide

Questions and answers

  1. True or false the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of bakers who refuse to bake cakes for same sex weddings on religious freedom grounds. True or false? - true

  2. Which rights does the first amendment protect? - freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly and religion

  3. True or false, the first amendment protects obscenity. - False

  4. Describe what libel and slander are. - When a malicious falsehood (ruins someone’s reputation) defames a person

  5. Speech is often times subject to time place and manner restrictions. True or false - True

  6. What is the process by which the Supreme Court has applied most of the bill of rights protections to the states through the 14 amendments due process laws? - Selective incorporation

  7. Does the first amendment protect the right to a speedy trial? - No, it’s the 6th amendment

  8. According to the clear and present danger test speech can be restricted when it - it violates the clear and present danger test

  9. Symbolic speech is generally protected under the 1st amendment as long as it doesn’t involve what? - Actual violence or a direct threat

  10. What does the establishment clause protect in the 1 amendment as long as it doesn’t involve

  11. What does the free exercise clause protect? - An individuals right to believe and within limits practice their religion free from government interference

  12. In DC versus heller, the Supreme Court ruled the second amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self defense

  13. Libel law New York time vs sulivan makes it harder for public officials to win defamation suits because why? They must prove actual malice

  14. Explain the process of selective incorporation does - Slower process most but not all bill of rights protections have been applied to the states case by case

  15. True or false the bill of rights originally only applied to the national government and not to the states - True

  16. The second amendment protects the rights for private citizens to own a nuclear weapon. True or false - False

  17. True or false under the free exercise clause the government may never interfere with any religious practice no matter how harmful. - False

  18. In the US is hate speech protected by the first amendment? - Yes

  19. As a student of Texas State University, is your speech protected by the first amendment? - Yes

  20. True or false are civil liberties are protections from individual rights government appearance - True

  21. Is prior restrains government censorship before publication is stronger disfavored and strongly unconstitutional under the first amendment - Not allowed

  22. The fourth amendment protects against what? - Unreasonable searches and seizures

  23. What is the exclusionary rule? When illegally obtain evidence cannot be used in a criminal trial

  24. Miranda vs Arizona provides suspects in custody to be aware of what? - The right to remain silent and the right to an attorney

  25. What does the 8th amendment prohibit? - Cruel and unusual punishment

  26. Popular sovereignty limited government and separation of powers are principals of which document? - The Constitution,

  27. True or false the Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. - False

  28. What are some rights of the accused? - a speedy trial/jury trial, right to an attorney, the right to remain silent, no unreasonable search and seizures

  29. What does the plessy vs Ferguson separate but equal doctrine hold? - segregation is legal as long as facilities are separate but equal

  30. Where is the bill of rights found in the constitution? - The first 10 amendments

  31. Where are the civil liberties primarily found within in? The bill of rights

  32. True or false civil liberties are protections from the government while civil rights are protections by the government - True

  33. True or false one advantage of freedom of speech is the pursuit of true through the robust marketplace of ideas - True

  34. Are unpopular minority, offensive views, and protected or unprotected? - Protected

  35. Which of these is a guarantee of the 14th amendment? - Equal protection of the laws

  36. What does the 13th amendment abolish? - Slavery

  37. During and after reconstruction, many southern states introduced what? Jim Crow Laws

  38. True or false segregation was still legally possible after the 14th amendment - True

  39. What did brown vs board of education end? -Segregation in public schools

  40. The Little Rock incident involved in the refusal to what? The refusal to desegregate public schools

  41. What is the belief vs conduct distinction? - holds that some religion practice can be illegal because of the harm inflicted on the community or others

  42. The second amendment right to bear arms is subject to a no regulation what so ever or reasonable regulations? - B. Reasonable regulations

  43. What are individual rights? - liberties protected from government infringement

  44. How many gov foundationals are in the government branches? - 3 foundational government branches

  45. Can Maranda rights be read to a suspect at any time or subject to interrogation? - Subject to interrogation

  46. What are some ways that African Americans after the 15th amendment were systematically discouraged from voting? - liberty test, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, white primaries, and intimidations

  47. The voting rights act finally and truly enforced what amendment? - The 15th amendment

  48. The civil rights act of 1964 ended what? - segregation in public places like hotels and restaurants and ended hiring segregation based on race

  49. Is offensive speech protected by the first amendment? - Yes

  50. What are some key fifth protections? - Double jeopardy, the privilege against self discrimination, and just compensation from private property