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Chapter 5: Fundamental American Liberties
Multiple Choice
1. According to John Locke, our rights are ______.
a. granted by government
b. granted by our fellow citizens
c. natural
d. determined indirectly as whatever is not regulated by government
e. determined arbitrarily
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
2. The difference between civil rights and civil liberties is ______.
a. inconsequential because the terms are used interchangeably in the United States
b. that civil rights involve speech, press, and religious freedom, whereas civil liberties involve voting
c. that civil rights limit the power of government, whereas civil liberties expand the power of government
d. that civil rights involve government action to secure rights of citizenship, whereas civil liberties involve individual freedoms that limit the power of government
e. that civil rights involve freedoms, whereas civil liberties involve voting
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
3. Prior to the Enlightenment, the idea that individuals had rights against the government was ______.
a. the basis of many legal precedents
b. seldom expressed
c. well-established in natural law
d. part of most political philosophers’ writings
e. of little interest to most people
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
4. The example provided in the textbook concerning the response to the September 11 attacks demonstrates that ______.
a. “the ends justify the means”
b. the liberty of the people is always more important than the security needs of the nation
c. it may be hard to protect both liberty and security
d. liberties are far more likely to come into conflict with each other than is liberty to come into conflict with security
e. liberty and security are never really in conflict
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
5. As an arbiter between the rights of the individual and the exercise of power by society, the Supreme Court ______.
a. has sided consistently with individual rights
b. has acted in an inconsistent manner across the spectrum of possible positions over the course of American history
c. supported government power in the nineteenth century but has been consistently on the side of the individual since then
d. leaned toward protection of the individual in the nineteenth century but has consistently favored government power since then
e. has generally remained neutral and allowed Congress to decide issues of individual liberty
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
6. An action that criminalizes an act after it occurs is a(n) ______.
a. unconstitutional ex post facto law
b. “closing the barn door after the horse is out” law
c. bill of attainder
d. habeas corpus law
e. exclusionary rule type of law
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
7. The right of an accused to be brought before a judge and informed of the charges and evidence against him or her is known as ______.
a. habeas corpus
b. ex post facto presentation
c. a bill of attainder
d. Miranda rights
e. a bill of presentment
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
8. The source of authority cited by the Supreme Court for applying the Bill of Rights to the states is ______.
a. the Bill of Rights itself
b. Congress
c. the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
d. Marbury v. Madison
e. Federalist No. 10
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
9. All of the following statements concerning incorporation of the Bill of Rights are true EXCEPT this:
a. Incorporation has taken place on the basis of provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
b. Incorporation is a matter of interpretation rather than a constitutional principle.
c. The Supreme Court began the process of incorporation of the Bill of Rights in the late 1960s.
d. Incorporation has taken place on the theories of both selective incorporation and total incorporation.
e. Without incorporation, the Bill of Rights would apply only to acts of the federal government.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
10. The rights the founders believed were essential to maintaining a representative democracy included all of the following EXCEPT ______.
a. establishment of religion
b. the right to bear arms
c. freedom of speech
d. freedom of the press
e. the right to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
11. Barbour and Wright assert that rights are designed to ______.
a. prevent individuals from harming themselves and fellow citizens
b. channel citizens’ political energies into certain activities and reduce political violence
c. discriminate between citizens and non-citizens
d. empower citizens and limit governments
e. restrict federal interference in state affairs
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
12. The establishment clause guarantees ______.
a. that government will not create and support an official state church
b. that all citizens may freely engage in religious activities of their choice
c. that American government is based on Judeo-Christian values
d. that all churches shall have tax-exempt status
e. the right to set up a church whenever a religious group so desires
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
13. Barbour and Wright contend that a law that has engendered many arguments when it comes to the trade-off between Americans’ civil liberties and their national security is the ______.
a. Affordable Care Act
b. Alien and Sedition Act
c. War Powers Act
d. USA Patriot Act
e. Smith Act
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
14. Separationists differ from accommodationists in that ______.
a. separationists wish to separate issues of school prayer from issues involving the establishment clause
b. accommodationists wish to separate issues of school prayer from issues involving the establishment clause
c. separationists favor a stricter separation of church and state than accommodationists
d. accommodationists favor a stricter separation of church and state than separationists
e. separationists favor a narrower interpretation of the free exercise clause
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
15. The test that seems to provide the most protection for free speech is the ______.
a. Lemon test
b. imminent lawless action test
c. clear and present danger test
d. Scalia test
e. bad tendency test
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
16. The Lemon test established that ______.
a. if there are prayers or Bible readings in schools, then students who do not wish to participate must be excused
b. states may prohibit religious activities that present a clear and present danger
c. citizens may freely engage in the religious activities of their choice
d. there shall be no excessive entanglement of government and religion
e. no state could establish an official religion
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
17. According to the textbook, freedom of expression is valuable for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ______.
a. it helps create an informed citizenry
b. it provides a voice for the minority
c. it is good for economic development
d. it provides a watchdog over government
e. it helps preserve the truth
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
18. In attempting to decide when speech can be prohibited, the Supreme Court has ______.
a. made it easier for the government to suppress speech
b. clarified when the government can suppress speech
c. made it harder for the government to suppress speech
d. been reluctant to interfere with the government’s authority to suppress speech
e. rarely had to address when the government can suppress speech
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Symbolic Speech
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
19. The right of all Americans to travel freely, conduct business, and have access to state courts while visiting other states are examples of ______.
a. full faith and credit
b. habeas corpus
c. bills of attainder
d. privileges and immunities
e. political correctness
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
20. Bills of attainder are laws that ______.
a. strip political rights from convicted felons
b. permit persons to be detained and sentenced without trial
c. require criminal defendants to testify against themselves
d. protect basic civil rights and liberties
e. prohibit censorship of anti-government writing and speeches
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
21. In Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington, the Court ruled that the plaintiff could be ______.
a. arrested for symbolic speech because his actions constituted an imminent threat to public safety
b. subject to a strip search for a minor offense he didn’t commit because concerns over jail security outweigh an individual’s privacy rights
c. strip searched because the suspect’s conduct gave the police a reasonable suspicion that a crime had been committed or was about to be committed
d. released from jail because he was not informed of his Miranda rights prior to being placed in the jail population
e. released from jail due to police misconduct, which included forcing the suspect to lift his genitals after being booked at the police station
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
22. The national government decides to prosecute a speaker who states at a political rally, “The U.S. government’s policy toward the Middle East is responsible for the violence in the region, and our leaders should be forced to change their policy.” Although the government would most likely be unsuccessful, for what would the government prosecute the speaker?
a. symbolic speech
b. fighting words
c. sedition
d. libel
e. slander
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
23. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brandenburg v. Ohio is significant because it ______.
a. created a new standard for regulating political speech
b. solved the question of what to do when violent speech is linked with violent action
c. created the clear and present danger test
d. declared certain kinds of symbolic speech to be unconstitutional
e. created a new test to determine whether something was pornographic
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
24. The Supreme Court has ruled that ______.
a. symbolic speech is always protected
b. symbolic speech is never protected
c. symbolic speech is not protected when it is most likely to inspire fear of bodily harm
d. flag burning is not symbolic speech
e. symbolic speech may be prohibited when it offends the public’s values
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
25. It is difficult for the Supreme Court to determine the exact meaning of obscenity because ______.
a. the whole area is so subjective that wide disagreement exists
b. few historical cases have examined the issue
c. there are so few obscenity tests to choose from
d. radical feminists and conservatives strongly disagree on the issue
e. teachers and students strongly disagree on the issue
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
26. Twelve constitutional amendments passed Congress in the earliest days of the Republic, ten of which became the Bill of Rights, one involving apportionment of the House of Representatives that was never ratified and one ______ that eventually became the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
a. setting the voting age at eighteen
b. prohibiting midterm pay raises for members of Congress
c. setting term limits for members of the House of Representatives
d. resolving questions about presidential succession
e. setting legal voting age at eighteen
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
27. The founders’ opposition to prior restraint showed their commitment to ______.
a. the right to due process of law
b. freedom of the press
c. freedom of assembly
d. the right to bear arms
e. freedom of religion
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
28. The idea that language shapes behavior and, therefore, should be regulated to control its social effects is known as ______.
a. the free exercise clause
b. political correctness
c. fighting words
d. obscenity
e. libel
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
29. The Supreme Court has ruled that prior restraint ______.
a. may be used by presidents in situations they declare involve national security
b. may be used in cases in which words are malicious
c. may be upheld only in cases of extreme emergency
d. may be upheld when Congress has granted the president legal authority to censor
e. is always unconstitutional
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
30. Written defamation of character is known as ______.
a. obscenity
b. libel
c. political falsehood
d. slander
e. sedition
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
31. The Supreme Court has ruled that public figures can win libel suits against the mass media only when the ______.
a. claims made by the media are false
b. claims made by the media damage the reputation of the public figure
c. public figure does not agree with the claims
d. claims made by the media will affect the outcome of an election
e. media claims are made with reckless disregard for the truth of the claims
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
32. In the conflict between media access to a trial and a defendant’s right to a fair trial, the Supreme Court has ______.
a. generally restricted press access to a trial
b. rarely considered whether the person is a public figure
c. relied on the defendant’s feelings to determine if there should be press access to the trial
d. made total media access the norm after the O. J. Simpson trial
e. generally permitted press access to most stages of the legal proceedings
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
33. In cases concerning compulsory flag salute laws, the Supreme Court ______.
a. has stated that no one can be forced to participate in flag ceremonies
b. contended that the First Amendment had nothing to say on this issue
c. has consistently held that all students can be compelled to salute the flag
d. has always defended the right of students to take part in patriotic celebrations
e. has historically refused to hear the cases
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
34. The Supreme Court ruled recently that the Second Amendment ______.
a. establishes only a collective right of the states to have militias
b. does not apply to the states
c. establishes an individual right to bear arms
d. applies to the states
e. is ambiguous and should be disregarded
Learning Objective: 5.5: Give examples of different interpretations of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Right to Bear Arms
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
35. The Supreme Court ruled recently that the Second Amendment individual right to bear arms ______.
a. applies to the states as well as to the national government
b. applies only to the national government
c. is restricted to rifles
d. should be replaced in favor of an interpretation that the right to bear arms is a collective right of the states
e. does not apply to individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault
Learning Objective: 5.5: Give examples of different interpretations of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Right to Bear Arms
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
36. The current status of the exclusionary rule is that ______.
a. evidence obtained unconstitutionally may not be used in court
b. defendants may sue police if unconstitutionally obtained evidence is used during their trial
c. the exclusionary rule has been eliminated
d. unconstitutionally gathered evidence may be used in court in certain circumstances
e. evidence obtained unconstitutionally may be used in court in all cases whatsoever
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
37. The Supreme Court has ruled that the exclusionary rule should ______.
a. apply only when the police conduct an illegal search deliberately
b. apply only to acts of the national government
c. be eliminated
d. be expanded to cover searches conducted by the military
e. not apply to cases involving investigations of terrorism
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
38. Regarding the right of free speech, Barbour and Wright conclude that ______.
a. it has rarely been violated by state governments
b. relatively few conflicts involving free speech have made it to the Supreme Court
c. as a country, America has had little difficulty restricting speech it doesn’t like
d. it is probably the most important civil right for citizens of a democracy
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
39. Miranda v. Arizona held that ______.
a. confessions will be judged by the “totality of circumstances” rule
b. all confessions must be made in the presence of a lawyer
c. police can no longer use confessions as a basis for arresting a person
d. police have to advise suspects of their constitutional rights
e. confessions obtained beyond U.S. borders cannot be used as evidence in U.S. courts
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
40. The right against self-incrimination ______.
a. applies only during trial
b. does not apply at the federal level under the Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
c. applies to suspects only in capital cases
d. applies at all stages of a criminal proceeding
e. was weakened when the Supreme Court reversed the Miranda decision
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
41. The current status of the right to counsel in criminal trials is that ______.
a. the Supreme Court has eliminated the right to counsel
b. the Supreme Court has extended the right to counsel to civil cases
c. the Supreme Court has restricted the right to counsel to those earning less than $3,000 per year
d. there has been no change in the law since the Gideon case
e. in many places, the right to counsel is complied with on a minimal basis
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
42. Constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment are controversial because ______.
a. the definitions of cruel and unusual are difficult to establish
b. the public presses the government to inflict cruel punishments
c. cruel punishments are often warranted
d. crime can be suppressed only if the government is willing to be cruel
e. unusual punishments are often necessary for unusual defendants
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
43. Support of capital punishment has been weakening in the United States, mostly due to public concern that ______.
a. the international community strongly disapproves of it
b. the system might be executing innocent people
c. it is inherently wrong in principle
d. it encourages violent behavior
e. the death sentence isn’t used often enough in criminal cases
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
44. Which of the following statements best describes the constitutional right to privacy?
a. The courts have ruled that a right to privacy applies only to cases of reproductive rights.
b. A right to privacy is not clearly spelled out in the Constitution, but many people argue the right is implied.
c. A right to privacy is spelled out explicitly in the Tenth Amendment.
d. The founders did not support a right to privacy, as evidenced by the Bill of Rights.
e. A right to privacy exists in the federal Constitution but not in most state constitutions.
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
45. Among other matters, the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) ______.
a. funded bounties to encourage young men to enlist in the military
b. banned immigration by citizens of China
c. made it easier for immigrants to become naturalized citizens
d. prohibited speech that criticized the federal government
e. decreased the wait time for immigrants to obtain citizenship
KEY: Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
46. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut is significant because it ______.
a. protected a poor person’s right to counsel
b. opened the door for a variety of claims regarding the right to privacy
c. incorporated the exclusionary rule
d. created a new standard regarding the regulation of political speech
e. changed precedent regarding searches and seizures
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Reproductive Rights
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
47. The authors of your textbook argue that during World War I ______.
a. Americans were totally united behind their government’s war effort
b. the Supreme Court defended the right of citizens to criticize their government
c. Congress had no problem passing laws that made seditious speech illegal
d. socialists and anarchists were able to speak out against the war freely
e. the Supreme Court issued no opinions regarding freedom of speech
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
48. In reading about the issues discussed in the textbook concerning the right to privacy, one would conclude that most of the controversies over this right involve ______.
a. life and death
b. the privacy of information
c. education
d. travel
e. those accused of a crime
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
49. A protester who burns her American flag during an anti-war demonstration is trafficking in ______.
a. obscenity
b. fighting words
c. symbolic speech
d. slander
e. libel
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
50. The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of assembly has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean not just that peacefully gathering to discuss political matters is safeguarded, but that ______.
a. private groups may always discriminate on the basis of race and gender
b. the very act of forming an association is also protected expression
c. this right is absolute and cannot be violated under any circumstances
d. the government must finance the operations of civil rights groups
e. private groups must make membership lists public
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
51. The source of authority cited by the Supreme Court for applying the Bill of Rights to the states is the ______ Amendment to the Constitution.
a. Fourteenth
b. Tenth
c. Eighth
d. Sixth
e. Fifteenth
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
52. According to the Miller test, obscenity is to be defined by ______.
a. local standards
b. common law
c. contemporary religious standards
d. the president
e. congressional standards
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
53. Fighting words are ______.
a. at the core of the right to privacy
b. not generally protected by the First Amendment
c. designed to produce violence
d. evaluated by the Miller test
e. protected by the Second Amendment
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
54. When a newspaper is censored in advance of its publication by agents of the government who remove a sensitive story, they are engaging in ______.
a. political correctness
b. slander
c. prior restraint
d. seditious libel
e. due process of law
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
55. In the landmark Near v. Minnesota (1931) case, the Supreme Court incorporated part of the First Amendment to the states and established that ______.
a. seditious libel is not protected by the Constitution
b. prior restraint is only permissible in extreme cases
c. obscene publications could be banned
d. fighting words are not worthy of constitutional protection
e. the free exercise clause is unconstitutional
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
56. Barbour and Wright aver that the original intention of the Second Amendment was to ______.
a. counter the potentially troublesome power of standing armies
b. permit private individuals to form their own militias
c. guarantee individual citizens the right to use weapons for hunting and recreational activities
d. stand as a bulwark against the return of British rule
e. reduce the potential for domestic insurrection
Learning Objective: 5.5: Give examples of different interpretations of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Bear Arms
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
57. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) is responsible for ______.
a. mandating that confessions be voluntary
b. applying the exclusionary rule to the states
c. requiring legal representation for indigent criminal defendants
d. establishing the right to privacy
e. allowing the application of prior restraint in extreme situations
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
58. Susan is on trial for burglary, and the prosecutor in that case compels her to testify during the proceedings even though she states that she does not want to participate. This action by the prosecutor is a clear violation of the ______ Amendment.
a. Fifth
b. Sixth
c. Seventh
d. Eighth
e. Fourth
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
59. Your textbook authors argue that the right to privacy ______.
a. is an unaffordable luxury in an era of rising terrorist threats
b. exists only in state laws and constitutions
c. is explicitly provided for by the Third Amendment
d. dovetails nicely with the Founders’ desire to establish a limited government
e. can and must be protected at all times
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
60. When the Supreme Court first explicitly elucidated the right to privacy, it claimed that it ______.
a. was an important implication of the Tenth Amendment
b. existed in the penumbras of several Constitutional amendments
c. did not safeguard the right of married couples to purchase and use contraception
d. protected a woman’s right to an abortion
e. its primary purpose was to protect gay rights
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
True/False
1. Incorporation is the Supreme Court action that makes the protections of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
2. In the conflict between accommodationist and separationist views of the establishment clause, the Supreme Court has, in recent times, sided consistently with the separationist position.
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
3. Non-citizens retain some rights in a democracy.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
4. Barbour and Wright conclude that Americans’ civil liberties and rights can never conflict with the government’s goal of maintaining national security.
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
5. The Bill of Rights has been applied to the states in a gradual and piecemeal fashion.
Learning Objective: 5.2: Explain how the Bill of Rights relates to the federal government and to the states.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Bill of Rights and Incorporation
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
6. Sedition refers to sexual speech that has no significant literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
7. The Supreme Court usually upholds laws that are designed to punish a class of speech called fighting words.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
8. The Supreme Court avoided tackling the issue of whether Americans could legally use contraception until their decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
9. The Supreme Court has consistently supported gay Americans’ right to privacy.
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
10. Barbour and Wright argue that obligations do not accompany rights.
Learning Objective: 5.8: Compare the idea of civil rights with that of civil obligations.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Citizens and Civil Liberties
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
Short Answer
1. Identify and describe the two main positions concerning the separation of church and state.
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Establishment Clause: Separationists Versus Accommodationists
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
2. Who are the primary actors typically involved in conflicts over citizens’ rights?
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
3. According to the authors, what two reasons are responsible for the lack of violence that typically emerges when a single religion is declared the one true faith for an entire polity?
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
4. How have the so-called personhood amendments impacted the debate over abortion?
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
5. How have some state legislatures attempted to discourage abortions?
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
6. How do opponents of doctor assisted suicide defend their position?
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
7. How has the Supreme Court defended its position that not all unusual punishments are unconstitutional?
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
8. What are the two primary reasons behind why the rights of those accused of a crime are protected?
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
9. Following the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, how did the NRA counter arguments that guns were responsible for school shootings?
Learning Objective: 5.5: Give examples of different interpretations of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Right to Bear Arms
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
10. How do supporters of net neutrality defend their position?
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
Essay
1. Summarize the Supreme Court’s rulings on the exclusionary rule since the Mapp case.
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
2. What have been the two major legal controversies surrounding the use of the death penalty?
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Medium
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
3. As Americans, we take pride in the many rights that we have. Often it is not clear what happens when rights conflict with one another. What are rights? What are the two ways that rights conflict? Provide two examples of each of the ways that rights conflict, and explain them. Where do we turn for help when our rights have conflicted?
Learning Objective: 5.1: Define rights and liberties and their role in a democratic society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Rights in a Democracy
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
4. On the face of it, freedom of religion seems to be a relatively easy concept to understand. In reality, it is fairly complex. Describe the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. Why has each been so controversial? What has the Supreme Court ultimately ruled regarding these two clauses?
Learning Objective: 5.3: Describe how the First Amendment protects both church and state, as well as individuals’ religious freedom.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freedom of Religion
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
5. One of Americans’ most cherished liberties is the right to free speech and expression. Nowhere does the tension between security and freedom become more acute than in issues involving claims of sedition. Trace the evolution of the Court’s position on suppression of speech deemed to be sedition. How have perceived threats to the nation influenced the creation of laws on sedition and the Court’s response to those laws? What tests has the Court adopted, and how do the tests represent a changing view on the part of the Court’s members regarding the balance between security and liberty?
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
6. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the right to bear arms is an individual right, not merely a collective right of the states concerned with their need for militias. Do you agree or disagree with this decision? What restrictions on gun ownership and use would you support?
Learning Objective: 5.5: Give examples of different interpretations of the Second Amendment’s meaning.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Right to Bear Arms
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
7. Americans are deeply divided over the right to privacy. Almost all Americans believe in the right to some privacy, but there is little agreement regarding what should be private and what can be regulated. Why is there so much disagreement over the right to privacy? Why is the issue so heated?
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
8. The textbook examines three issues regarding privacy: reproductive rights, gay rights, and the right to die. Pick one of these issues, and discuss what the courts have ruled regarding the issue. Do you agree or disagree? Defend your argument.
Learning Objective: 5.7: Discuss the extent of an individual’s right to privacy.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Right to Privacy
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
9. Discuss the ways in which lawmakers have attempted to address the issue of censorship on the Internet.
Learning Objective: 5.4: Explain the value of freedom of expression and how its protections have been tested.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Freedom of Expression
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
10. People suspected of committing a crime in the United States are afforded certain rights such as protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, protection against self-incrimination, the right to counsel, and protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Discuss the role of the Supreme Court in the interpretation and enforcement of one of these rights.
Learning Objective: 5.6: Describe the protections afforded criminal defendants under the Constitution.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Rights of Criminal Defendants
Difficulty Level: Hard
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important documents and achievements.
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