TOMPSC SCCJA UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 4th Amendment
Answer: Search and seizure
●● 5th Amendment
Answer: The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy
●● 6th Amendment
Answer: Right to a speedy and public trial
●● 14th Amendment
Answer: Due Process
●● Executive, Legislative, Judicial
Answer: Three Branches
●● Executive Branch
Answer: Enforces laws
●● Legislative Branch
,Answer: Makes laws
●● Judicial Branch
Answer: Interprets the laws
●● Supreme Court
Answer: Article III of Constitution. Court of last resort. Judicial review.
President nominates all justices, including position of Chief Justice, and
they must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. 9 justices. Receive
and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year, and grant certiorari to
about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and ends in
late June or early July.
●● Due Process
Answer: No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious and the
means selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable and substantial
relation to the object being sought to be achieved by that law or process
●● Fighting words
Answer: Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite
an immediate breach of peace
●● Intoxication, threats, physical interference
Answer: Forms of speech that are not protected
,●● Texas v. Johnson
Answer: A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law
banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such
action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
●● Trial Running
Answer: Lost individuals will hastily travel the nearest trail or travel aid
●● Despondent
Answer: Persons who are severely depressed individuals or persons
contemplating suicide
●● View Enhancement
Answer: Type of strategy occurs when the lost person climbs a hill or
tree in order to improve or enhance their view of the area
●● 16
Answer: SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
●● Any person under the age of 18
Answer: Definition of a child
, ●● Jeb v. Alabama
Answer: Case that established the equal protection clause
●● 63
Answer: SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
●● 1996
Answer: When was Megans Law passed?
●● 94
Answer: How many federal district courts are there?
●● 13
Answer: How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
●● Common pleas and general sessions
Answer: Two branches of a circuit court?
●● Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
Answer: Court case that established fighting words
●● Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 4th Amendment
Answer: Search and seizure
●● 5th Amendment
Answer: The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy
●● 6th Amendment
Answer: Right to a speedy and public trial
●● 14th Amendment
Answer: Due Process
●● Executive, Legislative, Judicial
Answer: Three Branches
●● Executive Branch
Answer: Enforces laws
●● Legislative Branch
,Answer: Makes laws
●● Judicial Branch
Answer: Interprets the laws
●● Supreme Court
Answer: Article III of Constitution. Court of last resort. Judicial review.
President nominates all justices, including position of Chief Justice, and
they must be confirmed by a majority of the senate. 9 justices. Receive
and dispose of approximately 5,000 cases a year, and grant certiorari to
about 150 cases. Term begins the first Monday of October and ends in
late June or early July.
●● Due Process
Answer: No law will be unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious and the
means selected to enforce that law shall have reasonable and substantial
relation to the object being sought to be achieved by that law or process
●● Fighting words
Answer: Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite
an immediate breach of peace
●● Intoxication, threats, physical interference
Answer: Forms of speech that are not protected
,●● Texas v. Johnson
Answer: A 1989 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law
banning the burning of the American flag on the grounds that such
action was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
●● Trial Running
Answer: Lost individuals will hastily travel the nearest trail or travel aid
●● Despondent
Answer: Persons who are severely depressed individuals or persons
contemplating suicide
●● View Enhancement
Answer: Type of strategy occurs when the lost person climbs a hill or
tree in order to improve or enhance their view of the area
●● 16
Answer: SC code of laws pertaining to weapons
●● Any person under the age of 18
Answer: Definition of a child
, ●● Jeb v. Alabama
Answer: Case that established the equal protection clause
●● 63
Answer: SC Code pertaining to child abuse and juveniles
●● 1996
Answer: When was Megans Law passed?
●● 94
Answer: How many federal district courts are there?
●● 13
Answer: How many circuit courts of appeals are there?
●● Common pleas and general sessions
Answer: Two branches of a circuit court?
●● Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
Answer: Court case that established fighting words
●● Acute, Outward Adjustment, Resolution
