CSULB - POSC 100 FINAL questions well answered graded A+ 2024/2025

CSULB - POSC 100 FINALcivil liberties - correct answer Constitutionally established guarantees and freedoms that protect citizens, opinions, and property against arbitrary government interference civil war amendments - correct answer the 13th, 14th, and 15th, amendments to the constitution, which abolish slavery and granted civil liberties and voting rights to freed slaves after the civil war due process clause - correct answer part of the 14th amendment that forbids states from denying "life, liberty, or property" to allow any person without due process of law. (a nearly identical clause in the 5th amendment applies only to the national government) selective incorporation - correct answer the process through which most of the civil liberties granted in the bill of rights were applied to the states on a case-by-case basis through the 14th amendment strict scrutiny - correct answer the highest level of scrutiny the courts can use when determining whether a law is constitutional. To meet this standard, the law or policy use be shown to serve a "compelling state interest" or goal, it must be the least restrictive means of achieving that goal intermediate scrutiny - correct answer the middle level of scrutiny the courts can use when determining whether a law is constitutional. To meet this standard, the law or policy must be "content neutral," must further an important government interests in a way that is "substantially related" to that threat, and must use means that are a close fit to the government's goal and not substantially boarder than is necessary to accomplish that goal. clear and present danger test - correct answer established in schenck v. United States, this test allowed the government to restrict certain types of speech deemed dangerous direct incitement test - correct answer established in Brandenburg v. Ohio, this test protects threatening speech under the first amendment unless speech aims to and is likely to cause imminent "lawless action"