AP U.S. Government and Politics: Supreme Court Case Review

Question 1

Multiple choice
  • Right to Privacy

  • Judicial Review

  • Federal Supremacy

  • Separation of Powers

Question 2

Multiple choice
  • The constitutionality of mandatory school prayer

  • Whether Congress had the power to establish a national bank and if the states had the power to tax it

  • Limits on free speech during wartime

  • The legality of segregation in public schools

Question 3

Multiple choice
  • the government could regulate interstate commerce

  • a state could tax a federal entity

  • speech could be restricted

  • search and seizure is justified without a warrant

Question 4

Multiple choice
  • Students must recite the Pledge of Allegiance in schools

  • Students have the right to a public education regardless of race

  • Students do not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they are on school property

  • Schools can impose any regulations in the interest of maintaining order

Question 5

Multiple choice
  • The 'clear and present danger' test

  • The right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment

  • The establishment clause of the First Amendment

  • The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 6

Multiple choice
  • The ability of states to regulate gun ownership

  • The legality of state-sponsored prayer in public schools

  • The use of affirmative action in college admissions

  • The rights of parents to refuse compulsory education for their children on religious grounds

Question 7

Multiple choice
  • Tenth Amendment

  • Fourth Amendment

  • Second Amendment

  • First Amendment

Question 8

Multiple choice
  • protection against self-incrimination

  • the right to counsel for all indigent defendants in felony cases

  • protection against double jeopardy

  • the right to a speedy and public trial

Question 9

Multiple choice
  • Racial segregation in public schools

  • The use of the death penalty

  • The internment of individuals based on nationality

  • The denial of counsel to indigent defendants

Question 10

Multiple choice
  • The right to bear arms

  • The rights of students in public schools

  • Campaign finance

  • Racial gerrymandering

Question 11

Multiple choice
  • the rights of criminal defendants

  • the right to privacy and contraception

  • the establishment of judicial review

  • apportionment and the principle of 'one person, one vote'

Question 12

Multiple choice
  • the rights of students to protest a war

  • campaign finance, allowing unlimited independent political expenditures by corporations and unions

  • the ability of states to tax federal institutions

  • the establishment of a national bank

Question 13

Multiple choice
  • Does burning the American flag constitute symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment?

  • Can states require individuals to purchase health insurance under the Commerce Clause?

  • Does the segregation of public schools by race violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

  • Does the recitation of a government-written prayer in public schools violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?

Question 14

Multiple choice
  • evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment cannot be used in court

  • students have the right to wear armbands to school as a form of protest

  • the death penalty, as administered, constituted cruel and unusual punishment

  • states are required under the Sixth Amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys

Question 15

Multiple choice
  • strict constructionism of the Constitution

  • implied powers of the federal government

  • state sovereignty over federal actions

  • judicial activism

Question 16

Multiple choice
  • upholding the separation of church and state

  • expanding the rights of criminal defendants

  • limiting the powers of the federal government

  • balancing the state's interest in compulsory education with individuals' First Amendment rights

Question 17

Multiple choice
  • Korematsu v. United States

  • Sweatt v. Painter

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 18

Multiple choice
  • expanded to include any speech that represents a potential danger

  • limited by the 'imminent lawless action' test established in Brandenburg v. Ohio

  • used to uphold the constitutionality of the Sedition Act

  • applied to allow for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

Question 19

Multiple choice
  • established the exclusionary rule

  • upheld the use of affirmative action in higher education

  • incorporated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to the states

  • struck down the Defense of Marriage Act

Question 20

Multiple choice
  • redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause

  • the death penalty is not considered cruel and unusual punishment

  • students have the right to free speech in public schools

  • police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning

Question 21

Multiple choice
  • the establishment clause

  • the right to bear arms

  • the right to privacy

  • freedom of the press and limited prior restraint

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