Final Exam for American Government
(Answered) Complete Solution 2023/2024
The Supreme Court applied the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states
through?
Incorporation
What is the requirement that persons under arrest be informed of their legal
rights, including right to counsel?
Miranda rule
Which amendment forbade the states from denying any person "equal protection
under the law"?
Fourteenth
The extent to which all groups of citizen, regardless of race, gender, or
nationality, are proportionally represented in measures of success in life
represents
Equality of outcome
The basis of freedom of religion is found in which two principles in the Bill of
Rights?
The establishment clause and the free exercise clause
What did MLK Jr. advocate as a means to achieve racial justice?
Nonviolent civil disobedience
According to the Supreme Court, a woman's right to seek an abortion is based on
Right of privacy
The guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment is found in which
constitutional amendments?
Eighth
While the Brown ruling was historic, the ruling itself did little to desegregate
schools due to its ambiguous command that schools should desegregate how?
With all deliberate speed
From the class video on civil liberties, the case of Gideon v. Wainwright affirmed
that the state must provide criminal defendants
Legal Counsel
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution known as?
Bill of Rights
Opponents of gun rights base their beliefs in limits on the right to own a gun in
what clause?
Well-regulated militia
A university uses an admissions policy that gives special consideration to
traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past
discrimination. The university is applying what ?
Affirmative action
Which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been used to launch progress in
civil rights?
Equal protection
cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited by what?
(Answered) Complete Solution 2023/2024
The Supreme Court applied the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states
through?
Incorporation
What is the requirement that persons under arrest be informed of their legal
rights, including right to counsel?
Miranda rule
Which amendment forbade the states from denying any person "equal protection
under the law"?
Fourteenth
The extent to which all groups of citizen, regardless of race, gender, or
nationality, are proportionally represented in measures of success in life
represents
Equality of outcome
The basis of freedom of religion is found in which two principles in the Bill of
Rights?
The establishment clause and the free exercise clause
What did MLK Jr. advocate as a means to achieve racial justice?
Nonviolent civil disobedience
According to the Supreme Court, a woman's right to seek an abortion is based on
Right of privacy
The guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment is found in which
constitutional amendments?
Eighth
While the Brown ruling was historic, the ruling itself did little to desegregate
schools due to its ambiguous command that schools should desegregate how?
With all deliberate speed
From the class video on civil liberties, the case of Gideon v. Wainwright affirmed
that the state must provide criminal defendants
Legal Counsel
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution known as?
Bill of Rights
Opponents of gun rights base their beliefs in limits on the right to own a gun in
what clause?
Well-regulated militia
A university uses an admissions policy that gives special consideration to
traditionally disadvantaged groups to overcome the present effects of past
discrimination. The university is applying what ?
Affirmative action
Which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has been used to launch progress in
civil rights?
Equal protection
cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited by what?
