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PLSI Quiz 2 Study Guide Question and answers 100% correct 1) 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 2) The functions of the Supreme Court include: - correc...

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1) 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


2) The functions of the Supreme Court include: - correct answer ✔-
maintaining national supremacy in the law
- resolving conflicts among the states
- ensuring uniformity in the interpretation of national laws
- rule on cases accepted from lower courts


3) Civil Rights are: - correct answer ✔Generally, all rights rooted in the 14th
amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law


4) Examples of civil rights and liberties violations by the US government
include: - correct answer ✔- The Patriot Act- Roving wiretaps
- National Security Surveillance Agency
- Defense of Marriage Act


5) Civil Liberties are: - correct answer ✔Those personal freedoms including
freedoms of religion and of speech, that are protected for all individuals in a
society.


6) The Rehnquist Court demonstrated its conservatism early on through which
ruling? - correct answer ✔Roe v Wade, against abortion

, 7) The process of confirming justices for the Supreme Court has become: -
correct answer ✔Very political as the Justice must confirm a Senate. The
Senate confirmation hearing is very political as the Senate Judiciary
Committee is composed to Senators who are GOP or Dems. Their
confirmation questions to the candidate would rule on certain issues like
abortion, privacy, etc.


8) Women were given the right to vote following ratification of the: - correct
answer ✔the 19th amendment


9) Segregation by use of law or administrative decisions by public agencies is
known as: - correct answer ✔De Jure Segregation


10) The institutional practice of slavery was outlawed by the: - correct answer
✔The 13th amendment


11) The right to counsel (representation by an attorney) is guaranteed by
which Supreme Court decision: - correct answer ✔Gideon vs Wainwright


12)The right to privacy is inferred through: - correct answer ✔other rights that
are explicitly stated in the Bill of Rights, specifically the fourth amendment


13) Policies designed to enforce civil rights for all Americans include: - correct
answer ✔Civil Rights Act


14) 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"

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