A paradigm is a boundary or parameter that outlines a rule is based on experience.
a. True
b. False
The following statements are true about both torts and crimes, except:
a. Both could result from the same single act.
b. Both differ by who is considered the victim.
c. Both must be heard separately by the court(s).
d. Both are subject to the same standard of proof in court.
The law banning the manufacturing of 19 different semiautomatic guns with multiple
assault-weapon features is the:
a. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
b. Brady Act.
c. Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act.
d. Federal Firearms Act.
According to the text, pluralism challenged the colonists to:
a. strive to maintain their original culture.
b. exercise tolerance and respect for the opinions, customs, traditions and lifestyles of
others.
c. band together in self-defense.
d. combine English and Roman common law with Native American customary law.
A basic purpose of the American legal system is to:
a. remove power from the government.
b. develop a living law.
c. ensure fairness in balancing individual and societal rights and needs.
d. create a system that, while not perfect, is the best in the world.
Anything that is illegal for people to own or have in their possession is known as
a. contraband.
b. inadmissible.
c. de jure.
d. illicit.
In re Gault assured juveniles:
a. the right to a jury trial.
b. due process in the legal system.
c. the right to be tried as an adult in certain cases.
d. the right against self-incrimination.
The __________Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
a. Twenty-Sixth (1971)
b. Nineteenth (1920)
c. Twenty-Seventh (1992)
d. Twenty-Second (1951)
The definition of cruel and unusual punishment is:
a. established by state referendum.
b. dependent on society.
c. defined in the Eighth Amendment.
d. specifically stated by the Supreme Court.
Membership in which of the following is based on state populations?
a. Senate
b. House of Representatives
c. State Judiciary
d. Constitutional Convention
The Brady Act does not prohibit:
a. states from enacting longer waiting periods on firearms purchases.
b. instant, computerized background checks.
c. illegal aliens from purchasing firearms.
d. those dishonorably discharged from military service from purchasing firearms.
The Supreme Court has tremendous power through the process of judicial review.
a. True
b. False
The U.S. Supreme Court established the right to counsel during police interrogation for
all criminal suspects in:
a. Escobedo v. Illinois
b. Miranda v. Arizona.
c. Dickerson v. United States
d. Fikes v. Alabama
The Supreme Court held that any amount of bail exceeding that necessary to ensure a
return to trial violated the Eighth Amendment in:
a. Stack v. Boyle
b. Gregg v. Georgia
c. Solem v. Helm
d. Ingraham v. Wright
A situation in which the police take someone in for questioning in a manner that is, in
reality an arrest, but without the requisite probable cause (and therefore illegal) is
called:
a. an augmented stop.
b. a seizure incident to arrest.
c. detention tantamount to arrest.
d. pre-arrest detention.
The Supreme Court struck down a law banning computergenerated or “virtual” child
pornography in:
a. Prewitt v. State of Arizona ex rel. Eyman (1969).
b. Procunier v. Martinez (1974).
c. City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994).
d. Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997).
Which of the following is not true about grand juries?
a. Choice of jurors determined by state law.
b. Does not make a determination of guilt.
c. May initiate investigations.
d. Different jury for each case.
Jim Crow laws emerged across the south following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896).
a. True
b. False
Which of the following has not been enacted to outlaw discrimination?
a. the Civil Rights Act.
b. the Equal Rights Amendment.
c. the Voting Rights Act.
d. the Equal Pay Act.
In Virginia v. Black, the Supreme Court ruled the singular act of cross burning was not
a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment.
a. True
b. False
A defendant always has the right to a trial by jury.
a. True
b. False
The Supreme Court upheld prison regulations that are “reasonably related to legitimate
penological interests” using the:
a. clear and present danger test
b. rational basis test
c. strict scrutiny test
d. clear and probable danger test
The ________doctrine states that evidence obtained as a result of an earlier illegality
must be excluded from trial.
a. prior taint
b. attenuation of the taint
c. fruit of the tainted seizure
d. fruit of the poisonous tree
The exception to the exclusionary rule that deems evidence admissible even if seized in
violation of the Fourth
Amendment when it can be shown that the evidence would have been discovered
through lawful means is:
a. harmless error doctrine
b. good faith exception
c. inevitable discovery doctrine
d. valid, independent source doctrine
Freedom of the press is the first right set forth in the Bill of Rights because of the
suppression of newspapers in the early American colonies.
a. True
b. False
A critical question regarding the interpretation of the Second Amendment is the
definition of:
a. people.
b. a militia.
c. arms.
d. well-regulated.
The Supreme Court held that Congress had the authority to establish a national bank in:
a. United States v. Darby
b. Bowers v. Hardwick
c. Olmstead v. United States
d. McCulloch v. Maryland
The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a free-speech right to pass out
anonymous political pamphlets.
a. True
b. False
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court noted that the Second Amendment
________’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and
bear arms.
a. operative clause
b. prefatory clause
c. sunset clause
d. demurrer
The Third Amendment:
a. addresses suits at common law.
b. deals with lawsuits exceeding $20.
c. prohibits the quartering of soldiers in homes during times of peace.
d. has been challenged numerous times throughout the history of America.