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C9631. A landmark court case that held spending money in an election was essentially
equivalent to free speech and struck down several provisions of campaign finance
law that had preciously been in place. The Supreme Court answered two questions
in this case; that individual restrictions on campaign donations did not violate the first
amendment , however; secondly that limitation on expenditures by candidates for
campaign purposes does violate the first amendment - ANS-Buckley v Valeo (1976)
2. A landmark Supreme Court case Legalized same-sex marriage. The court answered
two important questions in this case. First that the Fourteenth Amendment requires a
state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex. - ANS-Obergefell v
Hodges
3. A man was caught burglarizing a private home. As he fled the scene he tripped
causing the gun to accidently fire, killing the individual who discovered him. He was
convicted of murder and sentenced to death. In this case the court laid out guidelines
for capital punishment. - ANS-Furman v Georgia
4. A nonprofit corporation was prevented by the Federal Election Commission (FEC)
from showing a movie about a presidential candidate of the time because it violated
the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). The decision in this case concluded
that the restrictions imposed by BCRA and enforced by the FEC violated the
corporation's First Amendment right to free expression. - ANS-Citizens United v
Federal Election Commission, 558 U.s 310
5. A voter casts a ballot for a candidate based solely on the candidate's previous vote
on a tax cut. Which type of voting decision is demonstrated in this situation? -
ANS-Retrospective
6. As part of a protest, an individual set fire to a U.S. flag that another protestor had torn
from a flagpole. He was arrested, charged with "desecration of a venerated object"
and eventually convicted. However, the Supreme Court decided in this case that
burning the flag was a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment
and found the law, as applied to flag desecration, to be unconstitutional. - ANS-Texas
v Johnson 491 U.S 397 (1989)
7. During World War II, citizens of Japanese descent living on the west coast, whether
naturalized immigrants or Japanese Americans born in the United States, were
subjected to the indignity of being removed from their communities and interned
under executive Order 9066. When challenged, the Supreme Court decision in this
came upheld the actions of the government as necessary precaution in a time of war.
- ANS-Korematsu v United States, 323 U.S 214 (1954
8. How are elections for the U.S. Senate conducted? - ANS-One-third of the Senate
seats are up for election every two years.
9. How do most states award votes in the Electoral College? - ANS-The candidate who
wins the popular vote in the state gets all the electoral votes for the state.
10. How do presidents use mandates after election? - ANS-They use their public support
to implement campaign promises.
11. How many federal appellate courts exist in the United States? - ANS-13
, 12. How many sitting justices are there on the Supreme Court? - ANS-9
13. In this case involving the Ku Klux Klan, the Supreme Court found that only speech or
writing that constituted a direct call or plan to imminent lawless action, an illegal act in
the immediate future, could be suppressed; the mere advocacy of a hypothetical
revolution was not enough. - ANS-Brandenburg v. Ohio , 395 u.s. 444 (1969)
14. In this case the Supreme Court established a test for deciding whether a law or other
government action that might promote a particular religious practice should be
allowed to stand. - ANS-Lemon v Kurtzman 403 Us 602 (1971)
15. In this case the Supreme Court ruled that states could not deny unemployment
benefits to an individual who turned down a job because it required working on the
Sabbath. - ANS-Sherbert v Verner, 374 U.S 398 (1963)
16. In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the 1934 National Firearms Act's prohibition
of sawed-off shotguns, largely on the basis that possession of such gun was not
related to the goal of promoting a " well-regulated militia - ANS-United Stated v Miller
, 307 U.S 174 (1939)
17. In this Supreme Court case it was decided that evidence obtained without a warrant
that didn't fall under one of the exceptions mentioned above could not be used as
evidence in a state criminal trial, giving rise to the broad application of what is known
as the exclusionary rule, which was first established in 1914 on a federal level in
Weeks v. United States. - ANS-Mapp v. Ohio 367 U.S 643 (1961)
18. In which case did the Supreme Court establish that spending on political campaigns
constituted political speech that is protected by the First Amendment? - ANS-Buckley
v. Valeo
19. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that a person must be opposed to all wars
and not just a particular war to claim conscientious objector status? - ANS-Gillette v.
United States
20. In which case did the Supreme Court rule there is a constitutional right to privacy that
protects a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy? - ANS-Roe v. Wade
21. In which types of cases would the Supreme Court use the standard of strict scrutiny?
- ANS-Cases that restrict fundamental rights of protected classes
22. Students were suspended for wearing black armbands to school as a protest against
the continuing American involvement in the Vietnam conflict. The Supreme Court
ruled in this case the suspensions violated the free speech rights of the students and
the symbolic political speech that this protest represented. - ANS-Tinker v. Des
Moines , 393 U.S 503 (1969)
23. The Case concerned the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, Which
declared that certain states would be free of slavery. A slave who was brought by his
owner into free territories and back to Missouri, a slave state, sued claiming that his
time living in a free territory made him free. The court declared that relevant parts of
the Missouri compromise were unconstitutional and that he remained a slave as
result. - ANS-Dred Scott vs standford, 60 U.S 393 (1856)
24. The Supreme Court rules in this case that the federal Government had exclusive
power over interstate commerce. The Court said that any conflicting state
government laws or actions on interstate commercial activities we void. this court
case increased the power of the federal government when using the commerce
clause - ANS-Gibbons v ogden (1824)
25. The Supreme Court used this case to establish a test for deciding whether something
is obscene. - ANS-Miller v California 413 U.S 15 (1973)
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