POLS 206 TAMU EXAMS SCRIPT LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Miranda Rights - ✔✔- Statements that must be made by police informing a suspect
of his or her constitutional rights protected by the 5th amendment, including the right to
an attorney provided by the court if the suspect cannot afford one
- "Right to remain silent; anything you say can be used against you..."
- Miranda V. Arizona 1966
✔✔Civil rights - ✔✔- Equal treatment: free from unfair treatment or discrimination in
various settings including education, housing, and employment
- based on legally protected characteristics
✔✔Voting Rights Act of 1965 - ✔✔- Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote
based on literacy tests
- 24th Amendment prohibited use of poll taxes as requirement to vote
✔✔Jim Crow Laws - ✔✔- Required segregation in public schools, theaters, hotels and
other public accommodations and barred interracial marriage
- Dominated in the south for 70 years
✔✔De jure discrimination - ✔✔- Discrimination by law must be eliminated at once
- latin for "concerning the law"
, ✔✔De facto discrimination - ✔✔- Discrimination that results from practices rather than
the law
✔✔Strict scrutiny - ✔✔- A law that discriminates on the basis of race is presumed to be
unconstitutional unless the state can provide "compelling affirmative justifications"
- All race-based classifications → (answer)
- Cases involving race, religion or national origin
✔✔The Civil Rights Cases (1883) - ✔✔- 5 cases involving discriminations
- Court ruled Congress couldn't bar private acts of discriminations
- Can only prohibit government acts of discrimination
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) - ✔✔- Legal protections against
discrimination; extends protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to all citizens with
physical or mental disabilities
- Make "reasonable accommodations" for workers with disabilities and not discriminate
against otherwise qualified workers with disabilities
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1866 - ✔✔- Enacted to invalidate many Black Codes
- Designed to protect civil rights of African-Americans
- Gave Congress power to intervene when states try to restrict citizenship rights
- Johnson vetoed; congress overcame 2/3
✔✔Equal protection clause - ✔✔- Declares that all people get the equal protection of
the laws
✔✔Separate-but-equal doctrine - ✔✔- Allowed separate facilities, public
accommodations, housing, medical care, schools, employment and transportation along
racial lines
- As long as the facilities were considered "equal in quality"
- More often than not, the pattern was to establish "separate" accommodations, but they
were rarely "equal"
✔✔Intermediate standard of review (Intermediate Scrutiny) - ✔✔- Cases involving
discrimination based on sex or gender
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Miranda Rights - ✔✔- Statements that must be made by police informing a suspect
of his or her constitutional rights protected by the 5th amendment, including the right to
an attorney provided by the court if the suspect cannot afford one
- "Right to remain silent; anything you say can be used against you..."
- Miranda V. Arizona 1966
✔✔Civil rights - ✔✔- Equal treatment: free from unfair treatment or discrimination in
various settings including education, housing, and employment
- based on legally protected characteristics
✔✔Voting Rights Act of 1965 - ✔✔- Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote
based on literacy tests
- 24th Amendment prohibited use of poll taxes as requirement to vote
✔✔Jim Crow Laws - ✔✔- Required segregation in public schools, theaters, hotels and
other public accommodations and barred interracial marriage
- Dominated in the south for 70 years
✔✔De jure discrimination - ✔✔- Discrimination by law must be eliminated at once
- latin for "concerning the law"
, ✔✔De facto discrimination - ✔✔- Discrimination that results from practices rather than
the law
✔✔Strict scrutiny - ✔✔- A law that discriminates on the basis of race is presumed to be
unconstitutional unless the state can provide "compelling affirmative justifications"
- All race-based classifications → (answer)
- Cases involving race, religion or national origin
✔✔The Civil Rights Cases (1883) - ✔✔- 5 cases involving discriminations
- Court ruled Congress couldn't bar private acts of discriminations
- Can only prohibit government acts of discrimination
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) - ✔✔- Legal protections against
discrimination; extends protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to all citizens with
physical or mental disabilities
- Make "reasonable accommodations" for workers with disabilities and not discriminate
against otherwise qualified workers with disabilities
✔✔Civil Rights Act of 1866 - ✔✔- Enacted to invalidate many Black Codes
- Designed to protect civil rights of African-Americans
- Gave Congress power to intervene when states try to restrict citizenship rights
- Johnson vetoed; congress overcame 2/3
✔✔Equal protection clause - ✔✔- Declares that all people get the equal protection of
the laws
✔✔Separate-but-equal doctrine - ✔✔- Allowed separate facilities, public
accommodations, housing, medical care, schools, employment and transportation along
racial lines
- As long as the facilities were considered "equal in quality"
- More often than not, the pattern was to establish "separate" accommodations, but they
were rarely "equal"
✔✔Intermediate standard of review (Intermediate Scrutiny) - ✔✔- Cases involving
discrimination based on sex or gender
