Exam 4: Civil Rights and Liberties

The constitutionality of a state law prohibiting single men but not single women from adopting children would be reviewed under ____________________ by the Supreme Court.

Which standard of judicial review requires a statute to advance a "compelling state interest" and represent the "least intrusive means" to do so?

Which of the following democracies best resembles the United States both in terms of history and its approach to civil rights and liberties?

Which Supreme Court decision held that blacks did not possess the rights and freedoms guaranteed to citizens under the U.S.Constitution?

What are the trade-offs involved in the systems of rights and liberties established by the U.S.Constitution? How do citizens benefit from these limitations on government power? How do constitutional protections potentially harm or impose costs on citizens or on the community? In your opinion,has the U.S.system of rights and liberties struck an appropriate balance between individual rights and community needs? Why or why not?

Why is balance so important to the question of rights and liberties decisions by the Supreme Court?

Why are courts seen as an institution capable of protecting minority rights?

Identify two major failures of the constitutional system of rights and liberties that have occurred in American history.What circumstances produced these failures? How have they been addressed? In your opinion,how successful have these efforts been?

A law prohibiting ____________________ from operating a motor vehicle on public streets would be reviewed under the rational basis test.

Which are the laws passed after the Civil War to establish a system of segregation of public facilities and private establishments that made African Americans second-class citizens?

The Equal Rights Amendment proposed to eliminate discrimination on the basis of ____________________.

Identify and explain the three major standards of review that the Supreme Court uses to judge the constitutionality of state and federal laws that create classifications among citizens.What types of laws trigger review under each standard? Which standard imposes the most difficult burdens on the government defending a law? Why?

Which is the right to legal protections against arbitrary deprivation of life,liberty,or property?

Which of the following best describes the reaction (in terms of the balance between security and liberty)to the movement in the 1960s by the federal government to infiltrate and spy on groups opposed to the Vietnam War?

What did the Alien and Sedition Acts do?

What is the primary purpose of the Bill of Rights?

Under U.S.legal code,which of the following types of discrimination is the most generally accepted?

Which of the following would fall under the rights and liberties protections that safeguard United States citizens from government intrusion?

What is the principal reason that American courts must depend on legitimacy to ensure compliance with their decisions?

Which standard of judicial review requires only that a law have a reasonable relationship between its goal and the means used to achieve it?