Difficulty Level: Difficult
55. What was the significance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v.
California?
a. The Court developed the exclusionary rule.
b. The Court resolved debate over interpretation of the establishment clause.
c. The Court broadened the power of eminent domain.
d. The Court agreed to a constitutional definition of obscenity.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 425
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
56. Efforts to regulate content on the Internet have been __________.
a. generally opposed by Congress
b. upheld by the Supreme Court
c. enormously popular
d. generally unsuccessful
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 427
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
57. The USA PATRIOT Act lowered requirements for which of these?
a. violation of free speech
b. warrant approval
c. prior restraint
d. civil disobedience
Topic: Protecting Our Civil Liberties in an Age of Terror: Whose Responsibility?
487
Learning Objective: LO 14.7: Evaluate the roles of institutions and the people in
protecting civil liberties.
Page Reference: 440
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
58. Journalists generally support a right to withhold information from grand juries or
legislative committees. What is their main argument?
a. This right is essential to protect reporters from self-incrimination.
b. This right is essential to maintain the independence of the press.
c. Without this right, reporters will not be able to get the information they need to
keep the public informed.
d. Without this right, journalists will have no ability to shape the content of news
stories.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 425 – 426
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
59. When the government exercises the power of eminent domain, it must
__________.
a. first get congressional approval
b. fairly compensate the property owner
c. demonstrate a compelling government interest
d. first pursue other policy alternatives
Topic: Property Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how the Constitution protects property
rights.
Page Reference: 428
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
60. Under what circumstance is a law regulating speech most likely to be upheld?
a. if the law targets profane language
b. if the law is viewpoint neutral
488
c. if the law does not require prior restraint
d. if the law avoids excessive government entanglement
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 424
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
True–False Questions
61. The preferred position doctrine holds that First Amendment freedoms should only
be abridged with great reluctance.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 424
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
62. Commercial speech is constitutionally protected.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 424
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
63. The Fourteenth Amendment suggests that the protections in the Bill of Rights
could be interpreted as applying to the states.
Topic: The Basis for Our Civil Liberties
489
Learning Objective: LO 14.1: Trace the roots of civil liberties in the original
Constitution and their subsequent development in the Bill of Rights.
Page Reference: 418
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
64. State restrictions on handguns and other arms are now subject to strict
constitutional review.
Topic: The Basis for Our Civil Liberties
Learning Objective: LO 14.1: Trace the roots of civil liberties in the original
Constitution and their subsequent development in the Bill of Rights.
Page Reference: 419
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
65. Writs of habeas corpus are laws declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial.
Topic: The Basis for Our Civil Liberties
Learning Objective: LO 14.1: Trace the roots of civil liberties in the original
Constitution and their subsequent development in the Bill of Rights.
Page Reference: 416
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
66. A petit jury decides if a defendant is found guilty in a civil or criminal action.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 435
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
67. The Constitution explicitly protects the right to privacy.
Topic: Privacy Rights
490
Learning Objective: LO 14.5: Assess the kinds of behavior that may be covered
by a constitutional right to privacy.
Page Reference: 429
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
68. After Gideon v. Wainwright, the Sixth Amendment has been interpreted to
guarantee a right to counsel to all criminal defendants, regardless of indigence.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 433
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
69. The exclusionary rule prohibits police from using illegally seized evidence at trial.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 433
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
70. The Supreme Court has held that any restrictions on access to abortion are
unconstitutional.
Topic: Privacy Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.5: Assess the kinds of behavior that may be covered
by a constitutional right to privacy.
Page Reference: 430 – 431
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
71. Planned Parenthood v. Casey held that a state court can limit abortions as long as
the regulation does not pose an undue burden on pregnant women.
491
Topic: Privacy Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.5: Assess the kinds of behavior that may be covered
by a constitutional right to privacy.
Page Reference: 430
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
72. Under the First Amendment, all forms of speech and expression are permitted.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 423
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
73. The free exercise clause guarantees that the government will not interfere with
individuals’ right to hold particular beliefs.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 422
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
74. Most developed countries use some form of the death penalty.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 437
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
75. In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Court ruled that a Georgia sodomy law is
constitutional under the free exercise clause.
492
Topic: Privacy Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.5: Assess the kinds of behavior that may be covered
by a constitutional right to privacy.
Page Reference: 429 – 430
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
Fill–in-the–Blank Questions
76. One prong of the __________ test is that the law has a legitimate secular purpose.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 421
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
77. In Terry v. Ohio (1968), the Supreme Court upheld a(n) __________ exception to
the warrant requirement when officers believe someone is armed and dangerous.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 432
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
78. Though the Supreme Court has resisted striking down the __________, critics
wonder why alleged criminals should be freed simply due to police misconduct or
error.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 433
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
493
79. There are two kinds of due process that serve as restraints on government’s
exercise of power: procedural and __________.
Topic: Due Process Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.4: Distinguish between procedural and substantive
due process.
Page Reference: 429
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
80. __________ speech includes libel, obscenity, and fighting words.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 425
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
81. After a 10-year moratorium in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that the __________ does not inherently violate the Eighth
Amendment.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 436
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
82. __________ words are words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to
whom they are addressed.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 425
494
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
83. __________ rights include the right to remain silent.
Topic: Rights of Criminal Suspects
Learning Objective: LO 14.6: Analyze the constitutional rights of criminal
suspects.
Page Reference: 434
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
84. The Supreme Court has upheld the government’s taking of private property if it is
for __________.
Topic: Property Rights
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how the Constitution protects property
rights.
Page Reference: 428
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
85. Prior restraint is a constitutional doctrine that prevents the government from
prohibiting speech or publication __________ the fact.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
Page Reference: 424
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
86. In its 2010 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court incorporated the
__________ Amendment to the states.
Topic: First Amendment Freedoms
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Describe the First Amendment freedoms and the
limitations on them.
495