In ______________, the Supreme Court upheld the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium
Act, finding that its provisions did not violate the Contracts Clause.
a. Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934)
b. Nebbia v. New York (1934)
c.United States v. Butler (1936)
d. West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
In The Federalist No. 84, _________________ argued that because the Constitution
provided for limited government through enumerated powers, a Bill of Rights was
unnecessary.
a. John Jay
b. John Adams
c. Alexander Hamilton
d. None of the above is true.
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring
racial segregation
a. in public schools.
b. on railroad cars.
c. in courtrooms.
d. in the state legislature.
In ________________, the Supreme Court held that police officers may use
deadlyforce only when necessary to apprehend a fleeing felon and only when “the
officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death
or physical injury to the officer or others.”
a. Bram v. United States (1987)
b. Ashcraft v. Tennessee (1944)
c. Lyons v. Oklahoma (1944)
d. Tennessee v. Garner (1985)
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court’s use of
“substantive due process” was by and large confined to the protection of
a. free enterprise from government regulation.
b. the rights of women and children.
c. the states from the federal government.
d. the civil rights of black Americans.
In the modern era the Equal Protection Clause has been invoked successfully to
challenge discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities, as well as discrimination
against
a. mentally retarded persons.
b. illegitimate children.
c. illegal aliens.
d. All of the above are true.
As a Supreme Court justice, former Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter sharply
criticized the doctrine that the First Amendment occupies a(an) “__________ position.”
a. ignoble
b. preferred
c. sacrosanct
d. unfettered
The suspect classification doctrine originated in
a. English common law.
b. Korematsu v. United States (1944).
c. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
d. The Civil Rights Cases (1883).
In ________________, the Supreme Court adhered to its decision in Texas v. Johnson
and struck down the Flag Protection Act as applied to flag burning as a means of
political protest.
a. United States v. Eichman (1990)
b. Street v. New York (1969)
c. Doran v. Salem Inn (1975)
d. None of the above is true.
In ____________, the Court held in essence that a corporate charter was a contract, the
terms of which could not be changed materially by the state without violating the
Constitution.
a.Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
b. Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819)
c. Ogden v. Saunders (1827)
d. None of the above is true.
Under Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution,
a. every state is guaranteed at least one congressional seat.
b. congressional district lines may not cross state borders.
c. no congressional district may include less than 30,000 persons.
d. All of the above are true.
In Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District (1969), John and Mary Beth Tinker
wore ____________ to school to protest American involvement in the Vietnam War.
a. military fatigues
b. peace signs
c. black armbands
d. North Vietnamese flags
The stop and frisk investigatory detention was upheld by the Supreme Court in
a. Warden v. Hayden (1967).
b. Terry v. Ohio (1968).
c. Michigan v. Tyler (1978).
d. None of the above is true.
In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Supreme Court held that Alabama had infringed the
NAACP’s __________ by enforcing a law requiring organizations based outside the
state to register members’ names and addresses.
a. right of privacy
b. freedom of assembly
c. right to petition government for a redress of grievances
d. freedom of association
In _______________, the Supreme Court struck down a District of Columbia
regulation that prohibited the display of signs within 500 feet of a foreign embassy if
the message displayed on the signs brought the embassy’s government into “disrepute.”
a. Kovacs v. Cooper (1949)
b. Boos v. Barry (1988)
c. Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981)
d. None of the above is true.
Writing for the Court in Katz v. United States which Justice famously stated that “the
Fourth Amendment protects peoplenot places”?
a. William Brennan
b. Byron White
c. Potter Stewart
d. John Marshall Harlan
In Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976), the
Supreme Court struck down a state law banning
a. the advertisement of prescription drug prices.
b. the sale of “generic” drugs.
c. the sale of certain “over the counter” medications to minors.
d. the use of birth control devices.
Reference to enumerated rights is found in the _______ Amendment.
a. Ninth
b. Tenth
c. Seventh
d. Second
In ___________________, a statute aimed at suppressing commercial trafficking of
depictions of animal cruelty, such as “crush videos” where small animals are crushed
underfoot, was invalidated by the Supreme Court because the statute created “a criminal
prohibition of alarming breadth.”
a. United States v. Stevens (2010)
b. Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)
c. Coates v. City of Cincinnati (1971)
d. none of the above
In The Florida Star v. B.J.F. (1989), the Court overturned a(n) ____________ verdict
against a newspaper that reported the name of a rape victim, where the newspaper had
obtained the victim’s name from a police report that had been released in violation of
state law and the established police department policy.
a. libel
b. slander
c. defamation of character
d. invasion of privacy
In _____________, the Supreme Court struck down spending limits set by the Federal
Election Campaign Act as applied to the Colorado Republican Party’s “independent
expenditures.”
a. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
b. Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee
(1985)
c. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. Federal Election Commission
(1996)
d. Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee
(2001)
In The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), a narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld a state
grant of a monopoly in the slaughtering business in
a. New Orleans, Louisiana.
b. Houston, Texas.
c. Chicago, Illinois.
d. None of the above is true.
In ____________, the Supreme Court voted to uphold a Connecticut welfare regulation
that denied Medicaid benefits to indigent women seeking to have abortions, unless their
attending physicians certified their abortions as “medically necessary.”
a. Harris v. McRae (1980)
b. Missouri v. Danforth (1976)
c. Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
d. Maher v. Roe (1977)
It was not until Mapp v. Ohio (1961) that the Supreme Court extended the Fourth
Amendment __________ to state criminal prosecutions by way of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
a. exclusionary rule
b. probable cause requirement
c. particularity requirement
d. warrant clause
In Munn v. Illinois (1877), the Supreme Court endorsed and applied the doctrine of
a. business affected with a public interest.
b. liberty of contract.
c. natural rights.
d. fair return on a fair value.
Americans of the eighteenth century, including those who wrote the Constitution and
Bill of Rights, generally accepted the theory of ________________ as expounded by
such philosophers as John Locke.
a. natural rights
b. political absolutism
c. utilitarianism
d. primogeniture
In ______________, the Supreme Court placed limits on a search incident to arrest of
an occupant of a vehicle by holding that “police may search a vehicle incident to a
recent occupant’s arrest only if the arrestee is within reaching distance of the passenger
compartment at the time of the search or it is reasonable to believe the vehicle contains
evidence of the offense of arrest.”
a. United States v. Ross (1982)
b. California v. Acevedo (1991)
c. Arizona v. Gant (2009)
d. Arkansas v. Sanders (1991)
In ___________, the Supreme Court said that the exclusionary rule is not applicable to
a situation in which contraband is seized from a person who was falsely arrested due to
police negligence.
a. Herring v. United States (2009)
b. Wilson v. Arkansas (1995)
c. Hudson v. Michigan (2006)
d. Malley v. Briggs (1986)
In the 1958 decision in ________ the Supreme Court held that a state had infringed the
constitutional rights of organization members by enforcing a law requiring
organizations based outside the state to register members’ names and addresses.
Specifically, the Court held that the law violated the First Amendment freedom of
association.
a. NAACP v. Alabama
b. Rostker v. Goldberg
c. Nebbia v. New York
d. None of the above is true.
In the mid”1960s, a widely publicized effort to overrule the reapportionment decisions
through constitutional amendment was spearheaded by Senate minority leader _______.
a. Howard Baker
b. Strom Thurmond
c. James Eastland
d. Everett Dirksen