Sponge Questions Days 34-36

Question 1

A major unit of local government

Answer 1

County

Question 2

Counties in Louisiana

Answer 2

Parishes

Question 3

Counties in Alaska

Answer 3

Boroughs

Question 4

Muscle Shoals has a _________ form of government.

Answer 4

Mayor-council

Question 5

What term describes a requirement imposed on state and local governments to perform? The requirement may have nothing to do with the receipt of federal funds and may originate from court orders?

Answer 5

Mandates

Question 6

What term describes state power to promote health, safety, and morals (such as pornography, criminal laws, compulsory school attendance)?

Answer 6

Police power

Question 7

Civil Liberties

Answer 7

government is your enemy

Question 8

Civil Rights

Answer 8

government is your friend

Question 9

What term means that established legal procedures are followed completely?

Answer 9

Due Process

Question 10

What has allowed the Supreme Court to use selective incorporation forcing many of the guarantees found in the Bill of Rights on the States?

Answer 10

14th Amendments due process clause

Question 11

Basic freedoms to think and act that all people have and that are protected against government abuse.

Answer 11

Civil liberties

Question 12

What is the term that means strong support of a person’s party and its policy stands?

Answer 12

Partisanship

Question 13

What term describes the manner in which the Court used the 14th Amendment to apply the Bill of rights to the states?

Answer 13

Selective Corporation

Question 14

What should a person held in jail without a hearing seek?

Answer 14

Writ of habeas corpus

Question 15

When Charles Schenck was convicted in 1919 of mailing draft-resistance circulars what specific problem did the Court cite?

Answer 15

Clear and Present Danger

Question 16

The term that describes the people eligible to vote

Answer 16

Electorate

Question 17

Rights of fair and equal status and treatment and the right to participate in government.

Answer 17

Civil Rights

Question 18

What two clauses in the 1st Amendment deal with religion?

Answer 18

Establishment Clause & Free Exercise Clause

Question 19

What test does the Supreme Court use to determine establishment clause cases?

Answer 19

Lemmon Test which comes from Lemmon v Kurtzman

Question 20

What term describes spoken defamatory statements?

Answer 20

Slander

Question 21

What term describes written defamatory statements?

Answer 21

Libel