PLS 101 Final Exam Study Guide Missouri State Questions and Answers 2025
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PLS 101
4th Amendment -Correct Answer forbids the police to conduct searches and seizures without probable cause
5th Amendment -Correct Answer protects against double jeopardy, self-incrimination; loss of life, liberty, and property without due process of law
6th Amendment -Correct Answer right to ha...
PLS 101 Final Exam Study Guide Missouri
State Questions and Answers 2025
4th Amendment -Correct Answer ✔forbids the police to conduct searches and seizures
without probable cause
5th Amendment -Correct Answer ✔protects against double jeopardy, self-incrimination;
loss of life, liberty, and property without due process of law
6th Amendment -Correct Answer ✔right to have legal counsel, to confront witnesses,
speedy trial and trial by 'jury of peers' in criminal proceedings
8th Amendment -Correct Answer ✔- protection against excessive bail/fines, cruel and
unusual punishment
- Capital Punishment
Gitlow v. New York (1925) -Correct Answer ✔Bad Tendency Test
Bill of Rights -Correct Answer ✔imposes limits on the control the national government
has over the individual but does not do the same for state governments
Civil Liberites -Correct Answer ✔specific individual rights that are constitutionally
protected against government infringement
Schenck v. United States -Correct Answer ✔clear and present danger test
Due Process -Correct Answer ✔refers to legal protections that are designed to ensure
individual rights are respected by the government
Establishment Clause -Correct Answer ✔the first clause in the First Amendment, which
forbids government establishment of religion
Exclusionary rule -Correct Answer ✔the judicial rule that states that evidence obtained
in an illegal search and seizure cannot be used in trial
Free Exercise Clause -Correct Answer ✔- the second clause in the First Amendment,
which prevents the government from interfering with the exercise of religion
- Not an absolute right
free-expression clauses -Correct Answer ✔the press and speech clauses of the First
Amendment
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Lemon Test -Correct Answer ✔- the court struck down a state program that would have
helped pay the salaries of teachers hired by parochial schools to give instruction in
secular subjects
- Three-Pronged Test for government programs
Libel -Correct Answer ✔publication of material that falsely damages a person's
reputation
Miranda Warnings -Correct Answer ✔statements concerning rights that police are
required to make to a person before he/she is subjected to in-custody questioning
(Miranda v. Arizona*, 1966)
Prior Restraint -Correct Answer ✔government prohibition of speech or publication
before the fact
selective incorporation -Correct Answer ✔a judicial doctrine whereby most, but not all,
protections found in the Bill of Rights are made applicable to the states via the 14th
amendment
Slander -Correct Answer ✔spoken words that falsely damage a person's reputation
Symbolic Speech -Correct Answer ✔expression of an idea or viewpoint through an
action (wearing an armband, burning something)
Time, Place and Manner Restrictions -Correct Answer ✔rules on speech to prevent
disruptions or safety threats
Affirmative Action -Correct Answer ✔a wide range of programs aimed at expanding
opportunities for women and minority groups
Brown v. Board of Education -Correct Answer ✔the Court held that separate but equal
is inherently unequal in the context of public education
Boycott -Correct Answer ✔a refusal to do business with a firm, individual, or nation as
an expression of disapproval or as a means of coercion
Civil Disobedience -Correct Answer ✔the willful but nonviolent breach of laws that are
regarded as unjust
Civil Rights -Correct Answer ✔- powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals and
protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of gov't or individuals
PLS 101 Final Exam
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