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PLSC 101 Final Exam questions withverified answers (11)
Civil Liberties - correct answer ✔✔freedoms found primarily in the Bill of Rights, the enjoyment of which
are protected from government interference
protected by prohibitions against government actions that threaten the enjoyment of freedom. 2 groups:
Freedom of expression, belief, and association, and involving protections for people accused of
committing a crime
are the freedoms basically given to the people by the Bill of Rights: freedom of speech, freedom of
religion, freedom to a fair and unbiased trial
habeas corpus - correct answer ✔✔the legal doctrine that a person who is arrested must have a timely
hearing before a judge
bill of attainder - correct answer ✔✔a governmental decree that a person is guilty of a crime that carries
the death penalty, rendered without benefit of a trial
ex post facto - correct answer ✔✔a law that retroactively declares some action illegal
economic liberty - correct answer ✔✔the right to own and use property free from unreasonable
government interference
full faith & credit - correct answer ✔✔the provision in Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution; provides
that states must respect the public acts, laws, and judicial rulings of other states
contract clause - correct answer ✔✔the portion of Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution that prohibits
states from passing any law "impairing the obligations of contracts"
, Due Process Clause - correct answer ✔✔The section of the 14th Amendment that prohibits states from
depriving anyone of life, liberty or property "without due process of law;" a guarantee against arbitrary
or unfair government action
Selective Incorporation - correct answer ✔✔the gradual and piecemeal spread of the protections of the
Bill of Rights to the states by the U.S. Supreme Court
Privileges and Immunities Clause - correct answer ✔✔the portion of Article IV, Section 2 of the
Constitution that says that citizens from out of state have the same legal rights as local citizens
Equal Protection Clause - correct answer ✔✔the section of the 14th Amendment which guarantees that
everyone will be treated equally by government
Nationalizing - correct answer ✔✔the process by which provisions of the Bill of Rights become
incorporated
Incorporation - correct answer ✔✔the process by which the Supreme Court had made most of the
provisions of the Bill of Rights binding on the states
Ordinary Scrutiny - correct answer ✔✔the assumption that the action of elected bodies and officials are
legal under the Constitution
Strict Scrutiny - correct answer ✔✔the assumption that actions by elected bodies or officials violate
constitutional rights
Prior Restraint - correct answer ✔✔the government's power to prevent (restrain) publication, as
opposed to punishment afterward
Obscenity - correct answer ✔✔as defined by the Supreme Court, the representation of sexually explicit
material in a manner that violates community standards and is without redeeming social importance or
value
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