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The Activist court of the Chief Justice Earl Warren was primarily concerned with expanding: - correct answer Civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and federal power.
The functions of the Supreme Court include: - correct answer 1...
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The Activist court of the Chief Justice Earl Warren was primarily concerned
with expanding: - correct answer ✔Civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power,
and federal power.
The functions of the Supreme Court include: - correct answer ✔1.
Maintaining national supremacy in the law
2. Resolving conflicts among the states
3. Ensuring uniformity in the interpretation of national laws
4. Rule on cases accepted from lower courts
Civil Rights are: - correct answer ✔All rights rooted in the 14th Amendment
guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Examples of civil rights and liberties violations by the U.S. government
include: - correct answer ✔1. The Patriot Act
2. Roving wiretaps
3. National Security Surveillance Agency
4. Defense of Marriage Act
Civil Liberties are: - correct answer ✔Those personal freedoms including
freedoms of religion and of speech, that are protected for all individuals in a
society.
The Rhenquist Court demonstrated its conservatism early on through which
ruling? - correct answer ✔Roe v Wade, against abortion
, The process of confirming justices for the Supreme Court has become: -
correct answer ✔Extremely partisan, controversial, and ideological.
Women were given the right to vote following ratification of the: - correct
answer ✔The 19th amendment
Segregation by use of law or administrative decisions by public agencies is
known as: - correct answer ✔De Jure Segregation
The institutional practice of slavery was outlawed by the: - correct answer
✔The 13th amendment
The right to counsel (representation by attorney) is guaranteed by which
Supreme Court decisions: - correct answer ✔Gideon vs Wainwright
The right to privacy is inferred through: - correct answer ✔other rights that
are explicitly stated in the Bill of Rights, specifically the fourth amendment
Policies designed to enforce civil rights for all Americans include: - correct
answer ✔Civil Rights Act
The Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, KS(1954,1955) decisions
effectively overturned which previous Supreme Court ruling: - correct answer
✔Plessy vs Ferguson "separate but equal"
The practice of capital punishment was ruled "cruel and unusual" due to
arbitrary applications on the basis of race, in which decision: - correct answer
✔Furman vs Georgia
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