4. True/False Flashcards
Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists argued that adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution was not necessary.
True
As delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Antifederalists argued against adding the Bill of Rights to the proposed Constitution.
False
Madison initially fought for the Bill of Rights because he knew that without such protections, individual rights would be threatened.
False
The Fourteenth Amendment effectively provided for a single national citizenship.
True
False
The precedent established by Barron v. Baltimore was very long-lived, even after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
True
Within five years of ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court was making decisions as though it had never been adopted.
True
The civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government until long after the Civil War and passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
True
Soon after its adoption, the Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as applying the protections in the Bill of Rights to both the federal and state governments.
False
In Palko v. Connecticut, the ruling in Barron v. Baltimore was overturned because of passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
False
Written in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was used in schools for many years without the phrase “under God.”
True
A law is held to be constitutional under the Lemon test if it meets any one of the three criteria in the test.
False
The free exercise clause of the First Amendment protects those who do not believe in God.
true
Political speech can be restricted if it advocates imminent lawless action and is likely to produce such action.
True
In the Supreme Court case Buckley v. Valeo, the Court declared that since campaign spending was not a form of speech, the First Amendment did not protect it.
False
Although speech is afforded high levels of protection under the First Amendment, other forms of symbolic expression receive little protection from governmental regulation.
False
Oral speech that is made in reckless disregard of truth and is considered damaging to a victim because it is malicious, scandalous, and defamatory is known as slander.
True
Laws restricting hate speech have typically been upheld by the Supreme Court.
False
The exclusionary rule holds that evidence gathered from unreasonable searches and seizures cannot be admitted in court.
True
In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that persons under arrest must be informed of their legal rights, including the right to counsel.
False
Constitutional objections to the death penalty often invoke the necessary and proper clause of the constitution.
False
State legislatures currently have the authority to make homosexuality a crime.
false
Gonzales v. Oregon affirmed a state’s power to prohibit and punish physician-assisted suicide.
False
The exclusionary rule generally prevents prosecutors from using evidence collected without a legal search warrant in a court of law.
True
Incorporation is a term that refers to the process by which states adopted provisions from the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights into their own state constitutions.
False
Incorporation is a term that refers to the process by which states adopted provisions from the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights into their own state constitutions.
False
