Civil Liberties Test

Question 1

What are civil liberties?

Question 2

Which five freedoms are guaranteed by the 1st Amendment?

Question 3

What is the Establishment Clause?

Question 4

What court case ruled in favor of a man who burnt an American flag in protest?

Question 5

Briefly describe the events of Tinker vs. Des Moines.

Question 6

Which Supreme Court Case ruled that official school prayer is unconstitutional?

Question 7

What types of speech are unprotected? And in what case coined the phrase “clear and present danger”?

Question 8

What supreme court case allowed for the creation and use of Japanese Internment camps?

Question 9

What is a non-violent, legal means of encouraging or disapproving government action?

Question 10

What is due process? And what amendments is it created from?

Question 11

What is the 2nd Amendment?

Question 12

What are the different interpretations of the 2nd Amendment?

Question 13

Why was the 2nd Amendment included in the Bill of Rights?

Question 14

What is the 4th Amendment?

Question 15

Which Supreme Court case made the Exclusionary Rule a national standard?

Question 16

What is the 5th Amendment?

Question 17

Which Supreme Court case helped define self-incrimination?

Question 18

What is double jeopardy?

Question 19

What Supreme Court case upheld the right of the government to put down any plans to overthrow it?

Question 20

What is the 6th Amendment?

Question 21

Which Supreme Court case ruled that defendants are guaranteed the right to legal counsel, even if they cannot afford it?

Question 22

What is the 7th Amendment?

Question 23

Describe the events leading to the case Mapp vs. Ohio.

Question 24

What is the 8th Amendment?

Question 25

What is the 14th Amendment?

Question 26

Why was the 14th Amendment enacted?

Question 27

What is the Equal Protection Clause?

Question 28

Which Supreme Court case ruled that segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment if the facilities for each race were “separate but equal”?

Question 29

What Supreme Court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional?

Question 30

What Supreme Court case established citizens rights to own a handgun?

Question 31

Which Supreme Court case ruled that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to privacy?

Question 32

In which Supreme Court case did the classified information be released to the public to expose government actions in Vietnam?

Question 33

What Supreme Court case ruled that obscene materials did not hold 1 stamendment rights?

Question 34

Which Supreme Court case guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage?

Question 35

What is Title IX?

Question 36

What are the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Question 37

What current court case is about to be ruled on that covers Affirmative Action in regard to college admissions?