Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The Fifth Amendment limits the degree to which legislatures can require parties to report information to the government that can place them in jeopardy of criminal prosecution.

2. In 1962 the Supreme Court upheld a state law that made it a crime for a person to be “addicted to the use of narcotics.”

3. In 1965 the Supreme Court explicitly recognized a constitutional right of privacy when it invalidated a Connecticut law proscribing the use of birth control devices.

4. The Fourteenth Amendment expressly forbids states from denying equal protection of the laws to persons in their jurisdictions, but the Supreme Court has held that the federal government is not under any obligation to provide equal protection of the laws.


1. T
2. F
3. T
4. F

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