Gonzales v. Carhart involved a statute similar to one the Court had struck down in 2000
in _____.
a. Roe v. Wade
b. Washington v. Glucksberg
c. Stenberg v. Carhart
d. Lawrence v. Texas
Which of the following is the best example of symbolic speech?
a. The expletive “f— the draft” prominently displayed on the jacket of a man as he
walks down a courthouse corridor
b. A black armband worn by a school student during school hours as a visible
expression of protest against the Vietnam War
c. Peaceful picketing, boycotts, and sit-ins
d. The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln
The Supreme Court last held an act of Congress unconstitutional on nondelegation
grounds in _____.
a. Schecter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
b. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation (1936)
c. Carter v. Carter Coal Co (1936)
d. Mistretta v. United States (1988)
Governmental powers that derive from the mass of delegated powers or from a group of
them are called ______.
a. implied powers
b. concurrent powers
c. direct powers
d. resulting powers
In Terry v. Ohio (1968), the Supreme Court allowed a(n) _____ on the basis of _____.
a. pat-down search; reasonable suspicion
b. arrest; reasonable suspicion
c. arrest; drug courier profile
d. warrantless search; testimony from an unidentified informant
Members of Congress are not legally accountable for statements made in their official
capacity under the _____ Clause of Article I.
a. Due Process
b. Immunity
c. Speech and Debate
d. Membership
In his article of 1893, Professor Thayer advocated _____.
a. judicial activism
b. judges who walk in the shoes of lawmakers
c. more efficient courts
d. judicial restraint
The constitutional theory of implied powers is most closely associated with ______.
a. McCulloch v. Maryland
b. Chisholm v. Georgia
c. Cohens v. Virginia
d. Collector v. Day
In determining the degree of protection to be accorded seditious speech under the First
Amendment, the modern Supreme Court is most likely to invoke the _____.
a. clear-and-present-danger test
b. bad-tendency test
c. ad-hoc-balancing test
d. imminent-lawless-action test
Who was not a nominee of Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court?
a. Ruth Ginsburg
b. Robert Bork
c. Douglas Ginsburg
d. William Rehnquist
Who was the first Italian American named to the Supreme Court
a. Sonia Sotomayor
b. Samuel Alito
c. Benjamin Cardozo
d. Antonin Scalia
The doctrine or principle of dual federalism is most closely identified with ______.
a. John Marshall
b. Roger Taney
c. James Wilson
d. None of the above
Lopez v. United States (1995) was noteworthy because it marked the first time since
1936 that the Supreme Court had invalidated an act of Congress as a violation of _____.
a. the Fourteenth Amendment
b. the due process clause
c. the commerce clause
d. the necessary and proper clause
The necessary and proper clause is found in ______.
a. Article III
b. the First Amendment
c. Article I
d. All of the above
What was the first provision in the Bill of Rights to be applied to the states by way of
the Fourteenth Amendment?
a. Freedom of speech (First Amendment)
b. Free exercise of religion (First Amendment)
c. Just compensation for property seized for public use (Fifth amendment)
d. Searches and seizures (Fourth Amendment)
Article III of the Constitution provides that the Supreme Court “. . . shall have _____
Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such
Regulations as the _____ shall make.”
a. original; Congress
b. appellate; Congress
c. original; Supreme Court
d. appellate; Supreme Court
Lawrence v. Texas involved _____.
a. a woman who wanted an abortion
b. a woman arrested for consensual sex with another woman
c. a man and a woman arrested for indecent exposure
d. a man arrested for having consensual sex with another man.
In the wake of the constitutional crisis of 1937, the _____ nearly disappeared as a
limitation on the powers of the national government.
a. Commerce Clause
b. Ninth Amendment
c. Tenth Amendment
d. Fourteenth Amendment
South Dakota v. Dole involved _____.
a. the income tax
b. agricultural price supports
c. the drinking age
d. a national speed limit
The Supreme Court is most likely to declare a state regulation of interstate commerce
unconstitutional if _____.
a. it regulates in an area requiring local diversity
b. it favors out-of-state industry at the expense of local industry
c. it differs substantially from similar regulations in other states
d. it produces revenue for the state
As a result of the decision in Charles River Bridge Co. v. Warren Bridge Co.,
shareholders of the Charles River Bridge Co. were jubilant.
a. TRUE
b.FALSE
The Supreme Court first applied the Fourth Amendment to the states in _____.
a. Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
b. Weeks v. U.S. (1914)
c. Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
d. U.S. v. Calandra (1974)
The decision in Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia is the
source of the doctrine of _____.
a. implied powers
b. selective exclusiveness
c. interstate commerce
d. exclusivity
What Supreme Court justice served longer than any other member of the Court?
a. John Marshall
b. Stephen J. Field
c. John Paul Stephens
d. William O. Douglas
“Inter arma silent leges” means _____.
a. “in time of war the laws must be observed”
b. “during wartime, victory must be secured at all costs”
c. “in time of war the laws are silent”
d. “in time of war the laws are rarely silent”
Douglas Ginsburg was nominated to fill whose seat on the Supreme Court?
a. Warren Burger
b. Gerald Ford
c. Lewis Powell
d. Sandra Day O”Connor
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. involved _____.
a. an income tax
b. a tax on carriages
c. tariffs
d. a tax on oleomargarine
Chief Justice/Justice _____ articulated the “trimester approach” for legal abortions.
a. Warren Burger
b. Earl Warren
c. Harry Blackmun
d. William Brennan
The case of _____ stemmed from a treaty between the United States and Canada
designed to protect migratory birds.
a. Missouri v. Holland (1920)
b. United States v. Belmont (1937)
c. United States v. Pink (1942)
d. Goldwater v. Carter (1979)
In RAV v. St. Paul (1992), the Supreme Court concluded that St. Paul’s ban on cross
burning _____.
a. violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment
b. did not violate the free speech clause of the First Amendment
c. was aimed at action rather than speech and thus did not present a First Amendment
problem
d. was prohibited by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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 Texas v. Johnson (1989), many Supreme Court observers were surprised that (Chief)
Justice _____ joined the dissenters.
a. Rehnquist
b. Stevens
c. O”Connor
d. White