New York Times v. United States is the most important case regarding which of the following?
a. hate speech
b. prior restraint
c. fighting words
d. libel
Answer: b
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Which of the following is true of the PRI regime in Mexico between 1929 and 2000?
A. PRI was fairly flat and non-hierarchical by nature because it had distributed authority within the party to PRI state governors. B. PRI failed to incorporate mass groups such as labor and peasants in their party throughout their tenure. C. The PRI regime was characterized by substantial electoral participation but no effective interparty contestation. D. In the PRI system, the president had no authority over the selection of members to the legislature. E. PRI faced strong opposition from the PAN and the Mexican Communist Party, which often toppled the PRI from power between 1929 and 2000.
In the landmark Pentagon Papers case, ?the Supreme Court ruled that the government
A) ?had not proven that actual malice had been used by the New York Times. B) ?had violated the civil liberties of Woodward and Bernstein. C) ?had engaged in illegal activities in pursuing war in Vietnam. D) ?had met the burden of proof needed for prior restraint. E) ?had not met the extraordinary burden of proof needed for prior restraint.
Judicial federalism is
a. a trend in which state constitutional and statutory laws are consulted and applied before federal law. b. a trend of making public policy by judges through decisions that overturn existing law. c. a court-generated change in public policy that is perceived as illegitimate. d. None of these choices.
What is the central difference between the political responses to the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the heroin epidemic of the 21st century?
A. Medically assisted treatment for crack addiction in the 1980s was scientifically unexplored, while today the government is better equipped to respond medicinally to substance abuse in rural areas with higher access to medical care. B. Politicians in the 1980s faced many systematic roadblocks to implementing treatments for substance abuse among minorities, while today there is an easier path to medicinal responses to drug epidemics by state and local governments. C. Systematic responses to substance abuse in communities of color during the 1980s were focused on criminal punishment and harsh sentencing, while modern politicians implement medicinal remedies in response to widespread addiction in rural areas. D. The overall political response to the crack epidemic of the 1980s focused on the economic burden of providing treatment to crack addicts, while modern politicians can more easily secure funding for widely available treatment of heroin addiction.