4. True/False

Question 1

Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists argued that adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution was not necessary.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

As delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Antifederalists argued against adding the Bill of Rights to the proposed Constitution.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Madison initially fought for the Bill of Rights because he knew that without such protections, individual rights would be threatened.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Fourteenth Amendment effectively provided for a single national citizenship.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

False

Question 6

The precedent established by Barron v. Baltimore was very long-lived, even after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Within five years of ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court was making decisions as though it had never been adopted.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

In Palko v. Connecticut, the ruling in Barron v. Baltimore was overturned because of passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Written in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was used in schools for many years without the phrase “under God.”

Answer 11

True

Question 12

A law is held to be constitutional under the Lemon test if it meets any one of the three criteria in the test.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The free exercise clause of the First Amendment protects those who do not believe in God.

Answer 13

true

Question 14

Political speech can be restricted if it advocates imminent lawless action and is likely to produce such action.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Although speech is afforded high levels of protection under the First Amendment, other forms of symbolic expression receive little protection from governmental regulation.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Laws restricting hate speech have typically been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The exclusionary rule holds that evidence gathered from unreasonable searches and seizures cannot be admitted in court.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

In Gideon v. Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that persons under arrest must be informed of their legal rights, including the right to counsel.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Constitutional objections to the death penalty often invoke the necessary and proper clause of the constitution.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

State legislatures currently have the authority to make homosexuality a crime.

Answer 22

false

Question 23

Gonzales v. Oregon affirmed a state’s power to prohibit and punish physician-assisted suicide.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

The exclusionary rule generally prevents prosecutors from using evidence collected without a legal search warrant in a court of law.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

False