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Unit 5 Gov Test
Multiple Choice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the purpose of civil liberties? | To give individuals legal and constitutional protection against the government |
| Why was the Bill of Rights written the way it was? | To restrict the powers of the central government and to give American's freedom. |
| What is the incorporation doctrine? | The legal concept under which the Supreme Court has nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| What is the free exercise clause? | A First Amendment provision that prohibits government from interfering with the practice of religion. |
| What is the establishment clause? | Part of the First Amendment stating that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." |
| What are types of symbolic speech? | Nonverbal Communication, such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some of this protection under the First Amendment. |
| What is commercial speech? | Communication in the form of advertising. It can be restricted more than many other types of speech but has been receiving increased protection from the Supreme Court. |
| What is the fifth amendment? | A constitutional amendment designed to protect the rights of persons accused of crimes, including protection against double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and punishment without due process of law. |
| What is the death penalty? | Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is government sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences, such as treason or fir |
| What are the government restrictions on abortion? | trimester guidelines; no state interference in 1st; state may regulate to protect health of mother in 2nd; state may regulate to protect health or unborn child in 3rd. inferred from right of privacy established in griswald v. connecticut |
| What are the three levels of scrutiny? | 1) strict scrutiny - the government must show that the challenge classification serves a compelling state interest and that the classification is necessary to serve that interest. 2) middle - tier scrutiny - the government must show that the challenge c |
| What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? | the law that made racial discrimination against any group in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbade many forms of job discrimination. |
| What agency created the Civil Rights Act of 1964? | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the federal agency created to enforce the civil rights act of 1964 which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, creed, national origin, religion, or sex in hiring, firing or promotion |
| What is the 15th amendment? | the constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans. |
| What is the grandfather clause? | Voter qualification provision in many southern states that allowed only those citizens whose grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction to vote unless they passed a wealth or literary test |
| What is the 24th Amendment? | Forbids making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election. |
| What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965? | Suspended literacy tests, empowered federal officials to register voters, empowered federal officials to ensure that citizens could vote, empowered federal officials to count ballots, prohibited states from changing voting procedures without federal permi |
| What is a white primary? | primary election in which Southern states allowed only whites to vote |
| What is title 2 of the civil rights act of 1968? | prohibits discrimination because of race, color, religion, or national origin in certain places of public accommodation, such as hotels, restaurants, and places of entertainment. |
| What is significant about Betty Friedan? | The feminine mystique is the false notion that a woman's "role" in society is to be a wife, mother and housewife - nothing else. |
| What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1963? | No discrimination against people with disability |
| What has been established to protection against gender discrimination in the workplace? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| What has been established to protect men and women against sexual harassment? | Sexual harassment is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
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