WGU C963 Exam | American Politics and the US Constitution Questions and Answers Rated A+ | Latest 2024/2025
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WGU C963 Exam | American Politics and the US Constitution Questions and Answers Rated A+ | Latest 2024/2025
WGU C963 Exam | American Politics and the US Constitution Questions and Answers Rated A+ | Latest 2024/2025
WGU C963 Exam | American Politics and the US Constitution Questions and Answe...
WGU C963 Exam | American Politics and the
US Constitution Questions and Answers
Rated A+ | Latest 2024/2025
What is an appropriate characterization of media agenda setting?
- Correct Answer - Agenda setting determines which events
deserve public attention.
What describes the principle of prior restraint?
- Correct Answer - The government can prevent some
information from being published if it affects national security.
Which legislation required the executive branch of the U.S.
government to provide information requested by citizens?
- Correct Answer - The Freedom of Information Act
How do presidents use mandates after an election?
- Correct Answer - How do presidents use mandates after an
election?
Why is the Supreme Court affected less by public opinion than
other government organizations?
,- Correct Answer - The justices are not elected but are
appointed.
What is one common demographic group?
- Correct Answer - Income
was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established for
the first time that federal courts had the power to overturn an act
of Congress on the ground that it violated the U.S. Constitution.
- Correct Answer - Marbury v. Madison (1803)
In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States
Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied
the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the
Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
- Correct Answer - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools
on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
- Correct Answer - Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
, A case in which the Court decided that evidence obtained illegally
may not be used against someone in a court of law by the Fourth
Amendment.
- Correct Answer - Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
States must provide indigent criminal defendants with legal
counsel regardless the nature of the charge. - Correct Answer -
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to
police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to
an attorney and against self-incrimination.
- Correct Answer - Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the
Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally
protected a right to have an abortion.
- Correct Answer - Roe v. Wade (1973)
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, 1832,
held (5-1) that the states did not have the right to impose
regulations on Native American land.
- Correct Answer - Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
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