Which type of trial has selected citizens hear evidence to make a determination of guilt or liability?
A.) a jury trial
B.) a court-martial
C.) a summary trial
D.) a bench trial
Ans: A.) a jury trial
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The case of Miller v. California reformulated the standard for obscenity and did which of the following?
A. It shifted primary authority for obscenity policy back to the states and, implicitly, to local governments. B. It removed state and local government authority for determining obscenity policy. C. It upheld the federal Child Online Protection Act. D. It established barriers to the transnational transmission of pornography on the Internet.
The Articles of Confederation provided for a a. unicameral legislative body. b. central executive
c. judicial system. d. national income tax.
Those rights that are so fundamental that they are outside the authority of government to regulate are known as
A) ?civil liberties. B) ?civil rights. C) ?direct freedoms. D) ?negative freedoms. E) ?positive freedoms.
The purpose of a filibuster is to
A. ensure that all sides of an issue are heard. B. delay action in a legislative body. C. protect majority rule. D. shift legislative power to Senate committees. E. magnify the impact of specific special interests.