BYU FINAL EXAM GOVT 041 S003
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND
CITIZENSHIP TEST BANK SOLVED
QUESTIONS ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED
A PLUS
⩥ When do bills typically come to the floor for debate in the Senate?
Answer: when the majority and minority leaders agree to bring them to
the floor
⩥ Which individual or organization has primary constitutional authority
to establish and develop relations with other nations
Answer: the president of the United States
⩥ Which of the following elected officials could have the most influence
on the selection of a Supreme Court justice?
Answer: Members of the Senate would have the most influence.
⩥ Which of the following is the three part test the Supreme Court uses to
determine if government involvement in religion has become an
establishment?
Answer: The Lemon Test.
,⩥ Which of the following best describes the establishment clause?
Answer: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion.
⩥ The Warren Court
Answer: a. Associated with judicial activism because of its far-reaching
decisions that were not always directly connected to the immediate case.
⩥ The Rehnquist Court
Answer: b. Associated with its judicial restraint and conservativism.
⩥ Judge A uses a strict textual interpretation approach to constitutional
interpretation. Judge B uses a "loose interpretation" approach. Which
one believes that the Constitution is a "living" document?
Answer: Judge B only
⩥ Which of the following cases has had the most enduring impact on the
separation of powers?
Answer: Marbury v. Madison
⩥ What was the central issue in the Case of Marbury v. Madison?
Answer: Who would decide what roles and responsibilities the Supreme
Court had
, ⩥ declared that a defendant must have a competent attorney to receive
due process of law
Answer: a. Gideon v. Wainwright
⩥ declared that a white student had been unfairly denied admission to
medical school because affirmative action policies
Answer: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
⩥ overturned the Court's decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
⩥ asserted that separate institutions could be equal
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
⩥ Where was the term "affirmative action" first used?
Answer: in an executive order
⩥ Which case overturned the Court's previous decision that separate
institutions for blacks and whites can be "equal?"
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND
CITIZENSHIP TEST BANK SOLVED
QUESTIONS ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED
A PLUS
⩥ When do bills typically come to the floor for debate in the Senate?
Answer: when the majority and minority leaders agree to bring them to
the floor
⩥ Which individual or organization has primary constitutional authority
to establish and develop relations with other nations
Answer: the president of the United States
⩥ Which of the following elected officials could have the most influence
on the selection of a Supreme Court justice?
Answer: Members of the Senate would have the most influence.
⩥ Which of the following is the three part test the Supreme Court uses to
determine if government involvement in religion has become an
establishment?
Answer: The Lemon Test.
,⩥ Which of the following best describes the establishment clause?
Answer: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion.
⩥ The Warren Court
Answer: a. Associated with judicial activism because of its far-reaching
decisions that were not always directly connected to the immediate case.
⩥ The Rehnquist Court
Answer: b. Associated with its judicial restraint and conservativism.
⩥ Judge A uses a strict textual interpretation approach to constitutional
interpretation. Judge B uses a "loose interpretation" approach. Which
one believes that the Constitution is a "living" document?
Answer: Judge B only
⩥ Which of the following cases has had the most enduring impact on the
separation of powers?
Answer: Marbury v. Madison
⩥ What was the central issue in the Case of Marbury v. Madison?
Answer: Who would decide what roles and responsibilities the Supreme
Court had
, ⩥ declared that a defendant must have a competent attorney to receive
due process of law
Answer: a. Gideon v. Wainwright
⩥ declared that a white student had been unfairly denied admission to
medical school because affirmative action policies
Answer: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
⩥ overturned the Court's decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
⩥ asserted that separate institutions could be equal
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
⩥ Where was the term "affirmative action" first used?
Answer: in an executive order
⩥ Which case overturned the Court's previous decision that separate
institutions for blacks and whites can be "equal?"
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
