What did the Supreme Court mean when it declared during World War II that race was a "suspect classification"?
a. Any person of a different race, and particularly Japanese Americans, should be deemed suspicious until they could prove innocence.
b. Any law using race as a basis should be suspected of being an unconstitutional classification, but the burden would be on the one challenging the law to prove it.
c. Any classification based on race would undergo suspect scrutiny during Supreme Court review, and the rule maker would have to prove it was used because of a compelling public interest. –
d. Any local, state, or national law using racial criteria was presumed to be unconstitutional unless it could be shown to be both necessary and compelling.
d
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Since 1993, Russia's government has become more ___________
a. democratic b. authoritarian c. open d. political e. socialist
Which of the following does NOT describe the contemporary Texas economy?
A) More diverse than in the past B) More globalized than in the past C) Less dependent on agriculture than in the past D) The health of the economy is more reliant on the price of oil than in the past. E) The third largest state economy in the nation
The opportunity for the president to appoint members to the federal judiciary is valuable because
A) new justices help move long-term justices closer to mandatory retirement. B) a majority of presidents have been able to make more than five appointments to the bench while in office. C) rulings related to redistricting and election laws will be altered to favor the president's political party. D) the Court is able to move swiftly to begin ruling in favor of the president's ideology. E) the political views of the president will continue to be institutionalized long after they have left the White House.