TOMPSC SCCJA Cumulative Exam Study Guide With Complete Solutions

1st Amendment - Amendment that dealt with freedom of speech 4th Amendment - Search and seizure 5th Amendment - The Right to Remain Silent/Double Jeopardy 6th Amendment - Right to a speedy and public trial 14th Amendment - Due Process Executive, Legislative, Judicial - Three Branches Executive Branch - Enforces laws Legislative Branch - Makes laws Judicial Branch - Interprets the laws Supreme Court - 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 - 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 - Words that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace Intoxication, threats, physical interference - Forms of speech that are not protected