CUL 129 FINAL EXAM / Revised Questions and
Answers / Sure A+
This famous line by a famous chief justice is a pretty good succinct statements of which approach to the
question of authority in constitutional interpretation? - judicial supremacy
A fried asks you to read his essay about gender and suffrage during Reconstruction. His essay quotes
Senator Cowan calling for legislation allowing women to vote in DC, and argues that Cowan's words
prove that Reconstruction Republicans wanted women to have full suffrage rights. What do you say? -
The problem is that Cowan was joking, spoofing the women's suffrage argument as a way to
undercut the argument for black voting rights at the same time
attitudinal model - the belief that judges decide cases in light of their ideological preferences
Brown holds that "separate but equal" education facilities violate the 14th amendment because... -
The schools for blacks and whites were materially unequal
Calvin and Hobbes (the cartoon strip characters not the philosophers) run the "get rid of slimy girls
club." gender discrimination is the club's purpose and guiding mission which of the following is the most
accurate statement about what by while this club might be a bad idea its exclusion of girls is not
unconstitutional - According to the state action doctrine, individuals are not deprived of
constitutional rights when private entities discriminate against them
Coverture - when a woman marries her husband, they become one in terms of property/finances
Explain footnote 4 in carolene products - It notes that the court my employ "more searching
judicial inquiry" in certain kinds of cases and gives both substantiative and procedural reasons for doing
so
Fill in the blank
the statement "all men are created equal" appears in the ______. That document is not part of the
formal written constitution, ______. - Declaration of independence
, but has been part o constitutional debates since the country's origins
How did commonwealth v. Griffith (mass. 1823) turn out? - The mass court reversed the assault
conviction of the slave catcher Camillus Griffith, concluding that "it was not intended" that /state/
governments should be empowered to control fugitive-slave state law
How would you describe the relationship between the plessy decision (that is, the majority opinion),
strauder, and Yick Wo? - The Plessy Court must have somehow distinguished both Strauder and
Yick Wo, because the outcome of plessy so different from that of the earlier cases
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down part of the voting rights act, treating that status and congress'
logic in renewing it with critical skepticism
if your'e looking for a warren-court decision that offers a sharp contrast to that 2013 decision,
particularly in terms of the courts' attitude towards congress, which would you choose? -
Katzenbach v. Morgan
In a 2011 story, the New York Times covered North Carolina's ongoing debate over paying restitution to
thousands of people who is the state forcibly sterilize under a program ending only in 1977. if the story
mansion Supreme Court cases directly about sterilization which would they be? - Buck v. Bell
(nineteen twenty seven), which allowed an indoor sterilization of the feebleminded; Skinner v.
Oklahoma (nineteen forty two), which struck down a law that exempted investors from sterilization
In a major dissenting opinion we read, the dissenting Justice accused the majority justices of making a
decision based not on the meaning of the Constitution, but on "the individual political opinions of the
members of this court."
Which model is this closest to?
-Attitudinal model
-aspirational model
-Article III says to do that
-Reconstruction model - Attitudinal model
Answers / Sure A+
This famous line by a famous chief justice is a pretty good succinct statements of which approach to the
question of authority in constitutional interpretation? - judicial supremacy
A fried asks you to read his essay about gender and suffrage during Reconstruction. His essay quotes
Senator Cowan calling for legislation allowing women to vote in DC, and argues that Cowan's words
prove that Reconstruction Republicans wanted women to have full suffrage rights. What do you say? -
The problem is that Cowan was joking, spoofing the women's suffrage argument as a way to
undercut the argument for black voting rights at the same time
attitudinal model - the belief that judges decide cases in light of their ideological preferences
Brown holds that "separate but equal" education facilities violate the 14th amendment because... -
The schools for blacks and whites were materially unequal
Calvin and Hobbes (the cartoon strip characters not the philosophers) run the "get rid of slimy girls
club." gender discrimination is the club's purpose and guiding mission which of the following is the most
accurate statement about what by while this club might be a bad idea its exclusion of girls is not
unconstitutional - According to the state action doctrine, individuals are not deprived of
constitutional rights when private entities discriminate against them
Coverture - when a woman marries her husband, they become one in terms of property/finances
Explain footnote 4 in carolene products - It notes that the court my employ "more searching
judicial inquiry" in certain kinds of cases and gives both substantiative and procedural reasons for doing
so
Fill in the blank
the statement "all men are created equal" appears in the ______. That document is not part of the
formal written constitution, ______. - Declaration of independence
, but has been part o constitutional debates since the country's origins
How did commonwealth v. Griffith (mass. 1823) turn out? - The mass court reversed the assault
conviction of the slave catcher Camillus Griffith, concluding that "it was not intended" that /state/
governments should be empowered to control fugitive-slave state law
How would you describe the relationship between the plessy decision (that is, the majority opinion),
strauder, and Yick Wo? - The Plessy Court must have somehow distinguished both Strauder and
Yick Wo, because the outcome of plessy so different from that of the earlier cases
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down part of the voting rights act, treating that status and congress'
logic in renewing it with critical skepticism
if your'e looking for a warren-court decision that offers a sharp contrast to that 2013 decision,
particularly in terms of the courts' attitude towards congress, which would you choose? -
Katzenbach v. Morgan
In a 2011 story, the New York Times covered North Carolina's ongoing debate over paying restitution to
thousands of people who is the state forcibly sterilize under a program ending only in 1977. if the story
mansion Supreme Court cases directly about sterilization which would they be? - Buck v. Bell
(nineteen twenty seven), which allowed an indoor sterilization of the feebleminded; Skinner v.
Oklahoma (nineteen forty two), which struck down a law that exempted investors from sterilization
In a major dissenting opinion we read, the dissenting Justice accused the majority justices of making a
decision based not on the meaning of the Constitution, but on "the individual political opinions of the
members of this court."
Which model is this closest to?
-Attitudinal model
-aspirational model
-Article III says to do that
-Reconstruction model - Attitudinal model
