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a. their strength and endurance.

b. disagreement over them.

c. freedom of speech.

d. enjoyment of them.

Along with the enjoyment of fundamental rights comes a responsibility to ensure

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a. their strength and endurance.

a. precedent clause

b. establishment clause

c. sedition clause

d. free exercise clause

This prohibits government from unduly interfering with the freedom of religion.

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d. free exercise clause

a. justices b. presidents

c. members of Congress

d. citizens

Who are the keepers of this country's rights?

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d. citizens

a. Bill of Rights. b. slander laws.

c. establishment clause.

d. libel laws.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees certain basic rights in the

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a. Bill of Rights.

a. free exercise clause

b. incorporation

c. seditious clause

d. establishment clause

This extends the Bill of Rights protection to include all levels of government.

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b. incorporation

a. state school. b. secular school.

c. parochial school.

d. public school.

If you go to a school operated by a church or religious group, you go to a

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c. parochial school.

a. prior restraint. b. shield laws.

c. gag order. d. sequester.

Censorship of information before it is published is called

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a. prior restraint.

a. FBI b. FCC

c. FAA d. CIA

This regulates radio and television.

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b. FCC

a. libel laws. b. slander laws.

c. gag orders. d. shield laws.

Newspaper reporters may be protected by

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d. shield laws.

a. motion pictures.

b. Internet.

c. radio d. television.

In Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997), the court ruled that this was closer to print media than to broadcast media.

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b. Internet.

a. freedom of assembly

b. freedom of religion

c. freedom to libel

d. freedom to slander

Without this freedom there would be no political parties and no interest groups to influence the action of government.

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a. freedom of assembly

c. picket.

b. use violence when on strike.

a. veto public law.

d. use the heckler's veto.

Labor unions have the right to

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c. picket.

a. prior restraint. b. the right to speak freely.

c. freedom of religious choice.

d. freedom to have a jury trial.

Political debate is made possible in the United States because in most cases the courts prohibit

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a. prior restraint.

a. last war. b. genocide war

c. World Extermination War.

d. Holocaust.

The mass extermination of Jews by Nazis in World War II was the

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d. Holocaust.

a. Everson v. Board of Education

b. Mueller v. Allen

c. Levitt v. Committee for Public Education

d. Wolman v. Walter

This case on the establishment clause still stands as the benchmark for state aid to parochial schools.

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a. Everson v. Board of Education

a. libel. b. prior restraint.

c. sedition. d. slander.

If you advocate revolution, you will be punished for

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c. sedition.

a. pure speech b. prior restraint

c. defamatory speech

d. symbolic speech

This is false speech.

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c. defamatory speech

a. pure speech. b. symbolic speech.

c. libel. d. slander.

Written defamatory speech is called

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c. libel.

a. freedom of the press

b. freedom to use fighting words

c. freedom of speech

d. freedom of assembly

This freedom is NOT protected under the Bill of Rights.

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b. freedom to use fighting words

a. national security.

b. libel.

c. obscene material.

d. the constitution.

The Court has held that prior restraint is permitted only for purposes of

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a. national security.

a. the Supreme Court.

b. Congress.

c. the president. d. the state governments.

The Constitution assigns the power to control immigration to

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b. Congress.

a. Hawaii. b. Cuba.

c. Europe. d. Asia and Latin America.

Most recent immigration to the United States has been from

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d. Asia and Latin America.

a. the Bill of Rights.

b. its immigration policy.

c. the people. d. Congress.

The ultimate source of political power in the United States is

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c. the people.

a. resident aliens.

b. non-resident aliens.

c. illegal aliens. d. enemy aliens.

Before becoming naturalized citizens, immigrants are

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a. resident aliens.

a. non-resident aliens.

b. enemy aliens.

c. refugees. d. illegal aliens.

People who flee to another country to escape persecution or danger are called

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c. refugees.

a. California. b. New York.

c. Florida. d. Texas.

The state with the second largest number of immigrants is

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b. New York.

a. Dred Scott b. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

c. Chief Justice Roger Taney

d. Richard Nixon

This person was a great civil rights leader.

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b. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

a. jus sanguinis b. classification law

c. fundamental right

d. exclusionary rule

This is a citizen's right to travel freely between states.

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c. fundamental right

a. rational basis test

b. Jim Crow treatment

c. segregation d. racial discrimination

This is treating members of a particular race differently than other people.

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d. racial discrimination

a. a strike.

c. naturalization.

b. rational basis test.

d. segregation.

The separation of one group of people from the larger group is called

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d. segregation.

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a. an expatriate. b. a naturalized citizen.

c. an illegal alien.

d. an attorney.

A person who gives up citizenship in a country and moves to another is called

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a. an expatriate.

a. expatriation b. jus soli

c. naturalization d. jus sanguinis

This "law of the soil" grants citizenship to people born on United States soil.

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b. jus soli

a. jus soli b. naturalization

c. jus sanguinis d. expatriation

This "law of blood" grants citizenship to children born to a United States citizen.

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c. jus sanguinis

a. double jeopardy

b. naturalization

c. exclusionary rule

d. expatriation

Under this rule a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime.

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a. double jeopardy

a. causes double jeopardy.

b. calls for expatriation.

c. requires self-incrimination.

d. is a felony.

A major crime

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d. is a felony.

a. double jeopardy.

b. jus soli.

c. expatriation. d. naturalization.

The process that grants immigrants the rights and privileges of citizenship is called

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d. naturalization.

a. to be an expatriate

b. to become naturalized

c. to cast a ballot

d. to seek counsel

This is a responsibility of every United States citizen.

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c. to cast a ballot

a. Nineteenth Amendment

b. security classification system

c. Sunshine Act d. Civil Rights Act

This regulation opens meetings to the public.

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c. Sunshine Act

a. gender b. economic status

c. age d. race

The Reed decision created a new standard for judging constitutionality in these types of discrimination cases.

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a. gender

a. Civil Rights Act

b. sit-in

c. segregation d. discrimination

This form of protest was used by the Civil Rights movement.

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b. sit-in

a. law b. ordinances

c. contracts d. Code of Hammurabi

Statement of individual rights and obligations specifying how citizens and government relate to each other.

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a. law

a. Napoleonic Code.

b. common law.

c. Justinian Code.

d. Code of Hammurabi.

One of Rome's greatest contributions to civilization is the

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c. Justinian Code.

a. tort. b. affidavit.

c. discovery rule.

d. precedent.

When a new case is similar to cases already decided, judges follow the earlier

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d. precedent.

a. family law b. administrative law

c. constitutional law

d. statutory law

Cases involving this decide the limits of the government's power and the rights of the individual.

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c. constitutional law

a. a crime-free society.

b. a trial by jury.

c. equal pay for all citizens.

d. individual liberties.

While laws may seem to limit our freedoms, laws also guarantee

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d. individual liberties.

a. contracts. b. civil laws.

c. torts. d. ordinances.

Statutes passed by city councils are called

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d. ordinances.

a. case law. b. civil law.

c. Roman law. d. statutory law.

Because it derives from the decisions of judges in settling cases, common law is also called

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a. case law.

a. a warrant. b. a verdict.

c. an affidavit. d. an information.

A sworn statement asserting there is sufficient evidence to go to trial is called

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d. an information.

a. Napoleonic Code.

b. Code of Hammurabi.

c. Justinian Code.

d. penal code.

Written laws that spell out what constitutes a crime and its punishments are the

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d. penal code.

a. indictment b. arraignment

c. warrant d. affidavit

Unless an arrest is made during a crime, the police need this to make an arrest.

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c. warrant

a. jury trial. b. discovery.

c. mediation. d. plea bargaining.

The time when both sides gather evidence and check facts of the case is the time of

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b. discovery.

a. arraignment b. sentence

c. plea bargaining

d. indictment

This is an agreement between all parties that the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser crime.

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c. plea bargaining

a. plea bargaining

c. verdict

b. punishment d. sentencing

In nearly all criminal cases, this must be unanimous.

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c. verdict

a. misdemeanor b. judicial sentencing

c. guilty verdict d. hung jury

This can cause a mistrial.

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d. hung jury

a. sentence. b. plea bargaining.

c. verdict. d. indictment.

When the verdict is guilty, the judge usually determines the

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a. sentence.

a. tort. b. injunction.

c. implied contract.

d. felony.

Negligence involving careless or reckless behavior is a kind of

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a. tort.

a. a tort. b. a verdict.

c. a complaint. d. an affidavit.

The plaintiff sets forth the charges against the defendant in

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c. a complaint.

a. contract

c. summons

b. affidavit

d. ordinances

This is a set of voluntary promises enforceable by law.

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a. contract

a. offer b. implied contract

c. expressed contract

d. affidavit

This is a promise that something will or will not happen.

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a. offer

a. affidavit b. summons

c. complaint d. injunction

This is a court order that forbids a defendant to take or continue an action.

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d. injunction