Quiz 2

Question 1

Civil rights/liberties

Answer 1

Basic political rights that government may not infringe

Question 2

1st amend

Answer 2

free expression (speech/symbolic speech), free press, freedom of/from religion, assembly (protest)/association (marriage/who you associate yourself with), petition

Question 3

2nd amend

Answer 3

state militias (due to fear of slave rebellions/attacks from indian tribes), private means of protection

Question 4

3rd amend

Answer 4

freedom from government surveillance

Question 5

4rth amend

Answer 5

warrants/due process, protections for personal property (stuff/belongings)

Question 6

5th amend

Answer 6

freedom from self-incrimination, private property rights (capital assets: land, farm, businesses, etc) /eminent domains

Question 7

6th and 7th amend:

Answer 7

speedy trails; jury trial

Question 8

8th amend:

Answer 8

prohibitions against excessive bails, cruel and unusual punishment

Question 9

9th and 10th amend:

Answer 9

rights retained by the people; powers reserved to the states (or their people)

Question 10

Who did the bill of rights apply to?

Answer 10

Not everyone, mostly people who had problems with the government

Question 11

Selective Incorporation

Answer 11

using 14th Amend to apply Bill of Rights to the states (what this does is that it allows everyone the same rights in all states)

Question 12

What did Gitlow v. NY (1925)deal with?

Answer 12

Speech rights

Question 13

What did Mapp v. Ohio deal with?

Answer 13

Search and seizure (4th amend)

Question 14

What came out of Mapp v. Ohio

Answer 14

Exclusionary Rule - prevents the government from using most evidence gathered in violation of the United States Constitution

Question 15

What does Gideo v? Wainwright deal with?

Answer 15

Right to counsel
- gideon a white male was accused of murder, did not have an attorney and represented himself, he was sentenced to life in prison
- he later realized he was entitled to representation and got his conviction overturned

Question 16

What did Miranda v. Arizona deal with?

Answer 16

Reading ppl their rights
- Miranda a special needs person was accused of assaulting a woman
-Did not know his rights, did not have an attorney and confessed to a crime he did not commit

Question 17

What did Near v. MINESOTA deal with?

Answer 17

Government censorship

Question 18

What did Griswold v. CT deal with?

Answer 18

Right to privacy
- it applied parts of 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th amend
- involves birth control
- family owned business was arrested for selling birth control to married couples
- ESTABLISHED tht gov has no business in what families did in own home

Question 19

What did Roe v. Wade do?

Answer 19

Gave women right to abortion based on right to privacy

Question 20

Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization

Answer 20

Overturned Roe v wade

Question 21

USA Patriot Act

Answer 21

• it potentially violates citizens freedom from unreasonable searches
• Warrantless surveillance without court approval
  violates due process
  and seizures
• It does not require the government to have “probable cause” for surveillance
• Makes even unknowing association with suspected terrorists a deportable offense ( freedom of association violation )s