What measures can a court take in order to guarantee the right to a fair trial in the face of media scrutiny?

a. The court can limit journalists' access to particularly sensitive trials.

b. The court can exercise prior restraint against the publication of information that might influence the jury.

c. The court can force journalists to hold back sensitive information until after the trial has ended.

d. The court can threaten journalists with fines and imprisonment for revealing sensitive information.

e. The Supreme Court has never upheld a restriction on the press in the interest of a fair trial.

The U.S. Constitution in its original form, prior to amendment,

a. dealt more thoroughly with economic issues than with issues of equality

b. dealt more thoroughly with issues of equality than with economic issues

c. dealt with neither economic nor equality issues

d. emphasized both economic and equality issues to a large degree

e. mentioned both economic and equality issues only in passing

Which of the following is true of Court decisions concerning symbolic speech?

a. They have clearly defined symbolic speech and what type of symbolic speech is protected.

b. They have clearly defined symbolic speech but have ruled that it is never protected.

c. They have extended protections to only some forms of symbolic speech.

d. They have ruled that symbolic speech is always protected.

e. They have not directly addressed the matter of symbolic speech.

Imagine that you are an administrator at a public university and the Christian Fellowship has petitioned to use university facilities. According to Supreme Court decisions on the matter of religion and public schools, you $\underline{\phantom{\text{justtext}}}$

a. can deny the Christian Fellowship the use of the university facilities

b. must allow the Christian Fellowship to use the facilities, just like the Political Science Club and other student organizations

c. must allow the Christian Fellowship to use the facilities as long as its activities there do not include worship

d. must put the question to a vote of your student body

e. must require the Christian Fellowship group to file a religious exemption before you grant its request

Which of the following statements best explains the Supreme Court's interpretation of what the government may do to regulate religion?

a. It can prohibit religious beliefs and practices it considers inappropriate.

b. It can prohibit religious beliefs and practices so long as it does not specifically target a religion.

c. It can prohibit some religious practices but not religious beliefs.

d. It can prohibit neither religious beliefs nor religious practices.

e. It can prohibit religious practices and beliefs for only certain religions.

Writing to Learn Near the point $(1,2)$, is $f(x, y)=x^2-$ $x y+y^2-3$ more sensitive to changes in $x$, or to changes in $y$ ? How do you know?

Prior to the Supreme Court ruling in Gitlow v. New York, how were state governments restricted by the Bill of Rights?

a. Only the First Amendment restricted state governments, with the Bill of Rights in its entirety applying just to the national government.

b. The Bill of Rights restricted state governments just as it did the national government.

c. The Bill of Rights did not restrict state governments but did restrict the national government.

d. The Bill of Rights restricted state governments on a case-by-case basis as it did the national government.

e. The Bill of Rights restricted state action only on a case-by-case basis while restricting the national government generally.

Why can the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments be incongruent with majority rule?

**a. because they ensure minority rule in certain cases

b. because they limit the power of Congress in declaring war

c. because they limit the scope of civil liberties

d. because they prevent dissent against the government

e. because they protect rights of the accused even if the public disagrees

What did the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision force states to do?

a. make abortions legal throughout all three trimesters of pregnancy

b. make abortions illegal in cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother

c. grant paid maternity leave to women who decided not to have abortions

d. find a balance between a woman's right to privacy and the state's interest in the life of the child and health of the mother

e. balance babeas corpus with a woman's right to privacy

According to a $2008$ decision, the Supreme Court said terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in a court because $\underline{\phantom{\text{justtext}}}$.

a. citizens accused of terrorism must be detained at Guantánamo Bay, and citizens are guaranteed babeas corpus

b. detainees have no right to legal representation

c. the government cannot hold closed-door deportation hearings

d. the laws of the Constitution are enforceable by states only, except where enemy combatants are concerned

e. the laws of the Constitution cannot be set aside, even during extraordinary times

. What was the significance of the decision in McCleskey v. Kemp ($1987$)?

a. The Court decided that the Second Amendment did not extend to owning any firearm sold from one individual to another.

**b. The Court denied equal protection to African Americans because they were once considered private property.

c. The Court declared that the death penalty does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment because juries did not convict unduly on the basis of race.

d. Georgia's death penalty law was deemed unconstitutional because it targeted women more than men.

**e. ** "Victim statements" were deemed unconstitutional because they violated the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.

If a judge rules that a prosecutor cannot use improperly obtained evidence, the judge is applying $\underline{\phantom{\text{justtext}}}$ .

a. Miranda rights

b. probable cause

c. protection against self-incrimination

d. the exclusionary rul

e. the right to be represented by counsel

The purpose of the Second Amendment $\underline{\phantom{\text{justtext}}}$

a. can by interpreted by the states

b. is limited to protect the rights of non-citizens

c. is limited to the use of handguns and rifles

d. is to ensure that all guns are obtained legally

e. is to guarantee the right for citizens to bear arms

What is the primary complication involved in the free speech issue of obscenity?

a. banning minors from playing violent games

b. choosing appropriate rating systems for movies

c. deciding what type of material should be banned

d. determining what does and does not qualify as obscene

e. understanding how to restrict the Internet