The Supreme Court has allowed great flexibility in how states apply the protections of the Bill of Rights except when a right is closely linked to which of the following?
a. the Fourteenth Amendment
b. medical malpractice
c. human autonomy and liberty
d. corporate rights
e. equal rights
c
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Which statement about the distribution of income in the United States is CORRECT?
a. The unequal distribution of income in the United States is comparable to that of other advanced democracies. b. The distribution of income in the United States has been steadily becoming more equal over the past 30 years. c. The distribution of income is much more unequal in the United States than in other advanced democracies and has been steadily rising over the past 30 years. d. The unequal distribution of income in the United States has become of particular concern to U.S. politicians since 1980 due to fears of class warfare. e. The unequal distribution of income in the United States is fairly evenly spread across racial groups.
What is a factor in how a judge may make a decision?
a. legal rules and precedents b. changes in circumstances c. ideological attitudes d. external political pressures e. All of the above
After the end of the Thirty Years' War, who determined people's religion?
A. The Catholic Church. B. The Holy Roman Emperor. C. The ruler of each state. D. People decided for themselves. E. The head of each family.
Who said, “Next, I turn to the question of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. Again, my government believes that international law sets the appropriate standards. An occupier must maintain the occupied areas as intact and unaltered as possible, without interfering with the customary life of the area, and any changes must be necessitated by the immediate needs of the occupation and be consistent with international law.”
a. Yitzhak Shamir
b. Lord Moyne
c. William W. Scranton
d. David Ben-Gurion