What new policy was established by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright ruling?
A. the right to trial by jury
B. the need to charge an arrested suspect with a specific crime within 24 hours of arrest
C. the requirement that police read a suspect his or her rights before or during arrest
D. the practice of allowing a suspect out on bail until the time of the trial
E. government provision of free legal counsel to the accused if they are too poor to hire a lawyer
Answer: E
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a. Liberal democracies and micro-states are the least likely nations to engage in warfare. b. Civil war is most common in Marginal states. c. Overall, Islamic states are the least likely to be at peace. d. Overall, Marginal states are the least likely group to be at peace.
New rights not specifically listed in the Constitution can be discovered through which type of due process?
a. procedural b. fundamental c. conceptual d. substantive e. constitutional
Targeting what an adversary values the most, in the case of the Soviet Union their population and industrial centers, is called countervalue-targeting strategy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Since 1980, ______________ has spread rapidly and widely throughout the world and become the preferred mode of governance
a. dictatorship from oil-producing countries b. communism, alongside a free-enterprise component, c. democracy d. parliamentary dictatorship