PSCI 210 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
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PSCI 210
PSCI 210 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Race-Based Remedy - Answer-Using a person's race to assign them a specific position, such in a school, for the purpose of desegregation.
Cross-district Busing - Answer-Allowing for transportation cost of white children to black schools ...
PSCI 210 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Race-Based Remedy - Answer-Using a person's race to assign them a specific position,
such in a school, for the purpose of desegregation.
Cross-district Busing - Answer-Allowing for transportation cost of white children to black
schools and black children to white schools for the purposes of desegregation.
White-only Primary - Answer-This meant that only white selected candidate could be
nominated to run for the office.
Racial Gerrymander - Answer-the drawing of districts to create opportunity or to create
difficultly for minority voters to elect a candidate of their choice. Ruled unconstitutional.
1965 Voting Rights Act - Answer-suspended literacy tests; federal examiners order
registration of blacks where fewer than 1/2 population registered; criminal penalties for
interfereing with right to vote
Public Trial Right - Answer-Not absolute. This a a sixth amendment right. Means that a
defendant has the right to an open trial were spectators can be present.
Race-neutral districting - Answer-Restructuring of a district in order to group together
people of one race.
Private Discrimination - Answer-Discrimination by private individuals or businesses.
(such a s school)
Citizenship Clause - Answer-Reversal of the decision that declared that African
Americans were not and could not become citizens of the United States or enjoy any of
the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
Jus Soli Citizenship - Answer-Citizen by soil.
Jus Sanguinis Citizenship - Answer-Right of blood. Nationality is not dependant on
place of birth, but on having one or both parents that are citizens of that nation.
Naturalized Citizenship - Answer-a person who is not born a US citizen who goes
through the legal process of becoming a US citizen
Dual Citizenship - Answer-Citizenship in more than one nation.
, Expatriation as Punishment - Answer-Loss of citizenship.
Right to Foreign Travel - Answer-- Laws that prevent ppl from moving into a state must
meet strict scrutiny.
- Any durational residency requirements must meet strict scrutiny. (50 days is the max
for voting restriction)
- Restriction on foreign travel need meet only the rational basis test.
Right to Domestic Travel - Answer-Allowing a citizen of one state to enter and leave
another.
Contract Clause - Answer-Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 10) originally
intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between
individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions
that adversely affect property rights; no longer interpreted so broadly and no longer
constrains state governments from exercising their police powers.
Paramount Powers Doctrine - Answer-The power of the state is more important than
that of private land owners.
Taking Clause - Answer-The last clause of the Fifth Amendment, limits the power of
eminent domain by requiring that "just compensation" be paid if private property is taken
for public use.
Equal Rights Amendment - Answer-Supported by the National Organization for Women,
this amendment would prevent all gender-based discrimination practices. However, it
never passed the ratification process.
Traditional Equal Protection Test - Answer-This analyzes discrimination cases--use the
rational bias test
1) presume this law is constitutional
2)burden of proof on person challenging law-not gov
3)must prove gov lacked a legit purpose for law
4)resonable relationship between discrimination and legit purpose
State Action Requirement - Answer-constitution only applies to government action.
Private Conduct need not comply with the constitution. (teacher at private school can't
claim 1st amendment right after being fired for speaking out).
Suspect Classification - Answer-Category or class, such as race, that triggers the
highest standard of scrutiny from the Supreme Court.
Equal Protection Clause - Answer-14th amendment clause that prohibits states from
denying equal protection under the law, and has been used to combat discrimination
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