PSC 160-INT  Worksheet 13

Memo : Test Three will arrive on campus per usual, between 9:30 and 10:00 am, Monday morning (July 19th), although I am guessing I might be more closer to the 10:00 than the 9:30. You may take the test on the 19th or the 20th.
Homework Questions from Text
292. When the government has attempted to narrow the limits of protected speech, the Court has tended to do what?
293. Sedition laws are no longer used today (true or false)? *
294. When the Boy Scouts refused to allow homosexual men to become scout leaders, the Supreme Court ruled (against or in favor of) the Scouts?
295. What does the term "selective incorporation" refer to?
296. How was the American Sedition Act an improvement over the British version?
297. In 1977, the Court ruled what group had the constitutional right to march in Illinois?
298. Is obscenity protected by the First Amendment?*
299. Is nudity, by definition, obscenity? *
300. Can communities ban total nude dancing? *
301. Is flag burning constitutional (legal)? *
302. Does the Constitution require separation of church and state? *
303. Where does the phrase "wall of separation" originate?
304. The House and the Senate open each session with prayer (true or false)? *
305. Explain how most other democratic nations provide protection from unreasonable searches.
306. When (year) did the Supreme Court first consider applying the exclusionary rule to the states? *
307. When (year) did the Supreme Court first apply the exclusionary rule to the states? *
308. If you work for the government, your supervisor can search your desk without a warrant (true or false)? *
309. The Supreme Court has decided a number of cases in ways that have "retained" the exclusionary rule, but have also done what?
310. Under the USA Patriot Act, telephone taps, internet taps and voice mail taps all require what?
311. Nazi spies captured in WWII were tried in military courts because they were neither citizens, or soldiers, but what?
312. The text emphasizes that "all laws" make __________ among people.*
313. Explain what a "suspect classification" is.
314. Historians have "long debated" what?
315. What case overruled Plessy?
316. Whom did the Supreme Court decide would oversee the implementation of school desegregation?
317. What was the legal basis of the decision in Brown and why did it surprise many legal scholars?
318. What were the two explanations for the legal basis of the decision in Brown?

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