TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam
Study Guide
1st Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Amendment that dealt with freedom of
speech
4th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Search and seizure
5th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ The Right to Remain Silent/Double
Jeopardy
6th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Right to a speedy and public trial
14th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Due Process
Executive, Legislative, Judicial - correct answer ✔✔ Three Branches
Executive Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Enforces laws
Legislative Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Makes laws
Judicial Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Interprets the laws
Supreme Court - correct answer ✔✔ Article III of Constitution. Court of last
resort. Judicial review. President nominates all justices, including position of
Chief Justice, and they must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. 9
justices. Receive and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year, and grant
,certiorari to about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and
ends in late June or early July.
Due Process - correct answer ✔✔ No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or
capricious and the means selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable
and substantial relation to the object being sought to be achieved by that law
or process
Fighting words - correct answer ✔✔ Words that by their very utterance inflict
injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace
Intoxication, threats, physical interference - correct answer ✔✔ Forms of
speech that are not protected
Texas v. Johnson - correct answer ✔✔ A 1989 case in which the Supreme
Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the
grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First
Amendment.
Trial Running - correct answer ✔✔ Lost individuals will hastily travel the
nearest trail or travel aid
Despondent - correct answer ✔✔ Persons who are severely depressed
individuals or persons contemplating suicide
View Enhancement - correct answer ✔✔ Type of strategy occurs when the
lost person climbs a hill or tree in order to improve or enhance their view of
the area
16 - correct answer ✔✔ SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
, Any person under the age of 18 - correct answer ✔✔ Definition of a child
Jeb v. Alabama - correct answer ✔✔ Case that established the equal
protection clause
63 - correct answer ✔✔ SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
1996 - correct answer ✔✔ When was Megans Law passed?
94 - correct answer ✔✔ How many federal district courts are there?
13 - correct answer ✔✔ How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
Common pleas and general sessions - correct answer ✔✔ Two branches of a
circuit court?
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - correct answer ✔✔ Court case that
established fighting words
Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - correct answer ✔✔ 3 phases of
rape trauma syndrome
90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters - correct
answer ✔✔ Characteristics of an armed gunman
Study Guide
1st Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Amendment that dealt with freedom of
speech
4th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Search and seizure
5th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ The Right to Remain Silent/Double
Jeopardy
6th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Right to a speedy and public trial
14th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔ Due Process
Executive, Legislative, Judicial - correct answer ✔✔ Three Branches
Executive Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Enforces laws
Legislative Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Makes laws
Judicial Branch - correct answer ✔✔ Interprets the laws
Supreme Court - correct answer ✔✔ Article III of Constitution. Court of last
resort. Judicial review. President nominates all justices, including position of
Chief Justice, and they must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. 9
justices. Receive and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year, and grant
,certiorari to about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and
ends in late June or early July.
Due Process - correct answer ✔✔ No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or
capricious and the means selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable
and substantial relation to the object being sought to be achieved by that law
or process
Fighting words - correct answer ✔✔ Words that by their very utterance inflict
injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace
Intoxication, threats, physical interference - correct answer ✔✔ Forms of
speech that are not protected
Texas v. Johnson - correct answer ✔✔ A 1989 case in which the Supreme
Court struck down a law banning the burning of the American flag on the
grounds that such action was symbolic speech protected by the First
Amendment.
Trial Running - correct answer ✔✔ Lost individuals will hastily travel the
nearest trail or travel aid
Despondent - correct answer ✔✔ Persons who are severely depressed
individuals or persons contemplating suicide
View Enhancement - correct answer ✔✔ Type of strategy occurs when the
lost person climbs a hill or tree in order to improve or enhance their view of
the area
16 - correct answer ✔✔ SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
, Any person under the age of 18 - correct answer ✔✔ Definition of a child
Jeb v. Alabama - correct answer ✔✔ Case that established the equal
protection clause
63 - correct answer ✔✔ SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
1996 - correct answer ✔✔ When was Megans Law passed?
94 - correct answer ✔✔ How many federal district courts are there?
13 - correct answer ✔✔ How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
Common pleas and general sessions - correct answer ✔✔ Two branches of a
circuit court?
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire - correct answer ✔✔ Court case that
established fighting words
Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution - correct answer ✔✔ 3 phases of
rape trauma syndrome
90% of population is right handed, majority don't use holsters - correct
answer ✔✔ Characteristics of an armed gunman
