WGU C963 Final Exam | WGUC963 American Politics and the US Constitution C963 | Questions and Answers | Latest 2024/2025
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WGU C963 Final Exam | WGUC963 American Politics and the US Constitution C963 | Questions and Answers | Latest 2024/2025
WGU C963 Final Exam | WGUC963 American Politics and the US Constitution C963 | Questions and Answers | Latest 2024/2025
WGU C963 Final Exam | WGUC963 American
Politics and the US Constitution C963 |
Questions and Answers | Latest 2024/2025
Federal Government - Correct Answer - Powers are divided
between a central government and several local governments.
More poert than state
Scott v. Sanford - Correct Answer - The 1857 Supreme Court
decision ruling that a slave who had escaped to a free state
enjoyed no rights as a citizen and that Congress had no authority
to ban slavery in the territories.
Marbury v. Madison - Correct Answer - This case establishes the
Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review
Plessy v. Ferguson - Correct Answer - 14th amendment.
Separate train car. Separate bt legal.
US vs Miller - Correct Answer - Supreme Court ruling limiting
access to all weapons.
,Korematsu v. US - Correct Answer - California was right to intern
Japanese-Americans in camps during crisis of World War II
Brown v. Board of Education - Correct Answer - court found that
segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause
"separate but equal" has no place. 14th amend.
Mapp v. Ohio - Correct Answer - Evidence without warrant
exclusionary rule
Giddeon v. Wainwright - Correct Answer - Right to an attorney
Sherbert v. Verner - Correct Answer - the Supreme Court ruled
that disqualifying Sherbert, a Seventh-Day Adventist, from
receiving unemployment benefits violated the free-exercise clause
Griswold v. Connecticut - Correct Answer - Married couple
wanted to get contraceptives; struck down a Connecticut law
,prohibiting the sale of contraceptives; established the right of
privacy through the 4th and 9th amendment
Miranda v. Arizona - Correct Answer - Supreme Court held that
criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an
attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to
questioning by police.
Tinker v. Des Moines - Correct Answer - Students have the right
to symbolic speech at school as long as it is not disruptive. Black
arm band
Brandenburg v. Ohio - Correct Answer - Gov't can't punish or
prohibit inflammatory speech unless it is likely to incite imminent
lawless action. Kkk
Coenn v ca - Correct Answer - Freedom of speech arrested bc
of jacket
, Gillette v. United States - Correct Answer - Individual cannot use
religion to get out of particular war, must be against all wars
Lemon v. Kurtzman - Correct Answer - Three tests are described
for deciding whether the government is improperly involved with
religion
Foreman v GA - Correct Answer - Burglar shot someone. Capitol
punishment
Miller v. California - Correct Answer - A 1973 Supreme Court
decision that avoided defining obscenity by holding that
community standards be used to determine whether material is
obscene in terms of appealing to a "prurient interest" and being
"patently offensive" and lacking in value.
Roe v. Wade - Correct Answer - legalized abortion
TX v. Johnson - Correct Answer - Flag burning is protected
speech
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