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32 Cards in this Set
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. The grand jury protection, required at the federal level, has now been incorporated at the state level as well
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According to Patterson, racial profiling is a thing of the past, with most police departments being conscientious to treat everyone with respect and dignity
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The 1965 Supreme Court decision that established the right of privacy from the freedoms found in the Bill of Rights:
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b) Griswold v Connecticut
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. In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court majority:
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a) upheld a Nebraska law which banned partial-birth abortions even when the mother’s live is in danger
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Requires law enforcement officials to bring a person into court and explain the legal reason why they are being detained:
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a) habeas corpus
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Which amendments provide that no person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law:
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c) The Fifth and Fourteenth
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. In Indianapolis v. Edmund (2001), the Supreme Court held that
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, b) narcotics roadblocks cannot be used because it’s a general law enforcement purpose not specific to highway safety,
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In a trial, bars the use of evidence obtained in violation of a person's constitutional rights:
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b) exclusionary rule,
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. The following holds that otherwise excludable evidence can be admitted in trial if police believed they were following proper procedures:
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a) good faith exception
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How did the Supreme Court rule with regards to prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay?
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b) they have a right to challenge their detention in a federal court
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Barack Obama refused to disclose the activities of the National Security Agency warrantless wiretap activities under George W. Bush arguing that:
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d) it would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.
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. The Supreme Court argued that school prayer in the Vitale decision was part of local governmental action, making it difficult to establish whether it violated the First Amendment.
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Justice Potter Stewart said the following in Engel v Vitale
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d) school prayer re-enforces the spiritual legacy of America
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. Former Chief Justice Rehnquist in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) argued that there is not a right of privacy and therefore there is not a right to abortion
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Historically, abortion was considered a relatively safe medical procedure since the early nineteenth century
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In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), the Court
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b) made it more difficult for women to receive any public assistance for an abortion and allowed state-restrictions beyond the first trimester
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. The history of civil rights has been largely one of individual as opposed to group claims of equality
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. According to Patterson, discrimination by law against persons because of race, sex, religion, or ethnicity has been virtually eliminated
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10. The judiciary allows for inequalities among groups or classes of people because they are held to be reasonably related to a legitimate government interest
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c) reasonable-basis test
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any law that posists racial or ethnic classification is subjet to
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d) strict-scrutiny test
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. The Supreme Court's position is that race and national origin are:
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b) suspect classifications
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Rostker v Goldberg (1980) upheld the policy of male-only registration for the military draft on grounds that the exclusion of women from combat duty serves
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b) an important objective
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From the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women are protected against gender discrimination in employment
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a) Title VII
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1. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States government wanted to avoid being perceived as bigoted or racist by maintaining a fair and balanced immigration policy toward non-Europeans.
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Which amendment to the Constitution made poll taxes illegal?
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Because of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voter turnout among blacks in the South in the next presidential election increased by nearly:
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20
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. As a result of Adarand (1995), the Supreme Court majority
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c) halted the general use of quotas in the granting of federal contracts
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Which of the following terms define the concept of equal pay for equal work, a demand being made by leading feminists
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COMPARABLE WORTH
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The “separate but equal” doctrine was introduced to the Court by
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by the Plessy decision of the 1890s
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In Sweatt v. Painter, the Court directed law schools to make their buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers to be:
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a) equalized
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1. State governments have some direct authority over federal reservations because of the principle of dual sovereignty
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In 2003, the Supreme Court handed gays and lesbians another victory by invalidating state laws that prohibited sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex:
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d) Lawrence v. Texas.
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