AP US Government: Civil Liberties
and Public Policy Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Bill of Rights - ✔✔the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
Civil Liberties - ✔✔legal and constitutional protections against government
infringement of political liberties and criminal rights.
Commercial Speech - ✔✔communication in the form of advertising.
Cruel and unusual punishment - ✔✔Eighth Amendment prohibits such punishment.
Eighth Amendment - ✔✔forbids cruel and unusual punishment, although it does not
define this phrase.
Establishment clause - ✔✔First Amendment prohibits government from establishing a
religion; is the basis for separation of church and state.
Exclusionary rule - ✔✔prohibits government from including illegally obtained evidence
in a trial.
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, Fifth Amendment - ✔✔prohibits government from forcing individuals to testify against
themselves.
First Amendment - ✔✔establishes freedom of religion, press, speech, and assembly.
Fourteenth Amendment - ✔✔prohibits states from denying equal protection of the laws.
Free exercise clause - ✔✔government is prohibited in the First Amendment from
interfering in the practice of religion.
Incorporation Doctrine - ✔✔legal concept under which the Supreme Court has
nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states
through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Libel - ✔✔publication of false or malicious statements that damage someone's
reputation.
Plea bargaining - ✔✔an actual bargain struck between the defendant's lawyer and the
prosecutor to the effect that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser crime (or fewer
crimes) in exchange for the state's promise not to prosecute the defendant for a more
serious (or additional) crime.
Prior restraint - ✔✔government instrument to prevent material from being published.
Probable cause - ✔✔police must have a good reason to arrest someone.
Right to privacy - ✔✔a contrived right from unstated liberties in the Bill of Rights.
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and Public Policy Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Bill of Rights - ✔✔the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
Civil Liberties - ✔✔legal and constitutional protections against government
infringement of political liberties and criminal rights.
Commercial Speech - ✔✔communication in the form of advertising.
Cruel and unusual punishment - ✔✔Eighth Amendment prohibits such punishment.
Eighth Amendment - ✔✔forbids cruel and unusual punishment, although it does not
define this phrase.
Establishment clause - ✔✔First Amendment prohibits government from establishing a
religion; is the basis for separation of church and state.
Exclusionary rule - ✔✔prohibits government from including illegally obtained evidence
in a trial.
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, Fifth Amendment - ✔✔prohibits government from forcing individuals to testify against
themselves.
First Amendment - ✔✔establishes freedom of religion, press, speech, and assembly.
Fourteenth Amendment - ✔✔prohibits states from denying equal protection of the laws.
Free exercise clause - ✔✔government is prohibited in the First Amendment from
interfering in the practice of religion.
Incorporation Doctrine - ✔✔legal concept under which the Supreme Court has
nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states
through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Libel - ✔✔publication of false or malicious statements that damage someone's
reputation.
Plea bargaining - ✔✔an actual bargain struck between the defendant's lawyer and the
prosecutor to the effect that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser crime (or fewer
crimes) in exchange for the state's promise not to prosecute the defendant for a more
serious (or additional) crime.
Prior restraint - ✔✔government instrument to prevent material from being published.
Probable cause - ✔✔police must have a good reason to arrest someone.
Right to privacy - ✔✔a contrived right from unstated liberties in the Bill of Rights.
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