MCQ Questions
Q.1.
Which Supreme Court case established that police must advise criminal suspects of their Constitutional rights before questioning them?
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    Mapp v. Ohio
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    Escobedo v. Illinois
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    Michigan v. Jackson
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    Miranda v. Arizona
Q.2.
Which Supreme Court case upheld state laws requiring racial segregation at public facilities under the "separate but equal" doctrine?
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    Brown v. Board of Education
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    Loving v. Virginia
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
Q.3.
Which Supreme Court case held that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples?
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    Lawrence v. Texas
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    Romer v. Evans
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    Obergefell v. Hodges
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    Loving v. Virginia
Q.4.
Which Supreme Court case struck down state funding for religious schools?
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    Lemon v. Kurtzman
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    Engel v. Vitale
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    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District
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    Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

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Q.5.
Which Supreme Court case established that the Constitution grants implied powers to Congress which can be used to implement the Constitution's express powers?
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    Gibbons v. Ogden
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    Cohens v. Virginia
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    McCulloch v. Maryland
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    Texas v. Johnson

In 1816 Congress chartered the Second Bank of the United States, and in 1818 Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on this bank.

Q.6.
Which Supreme Court case established the basis for the exercise of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution?
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    Gibbons v. Ogden
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    McCulloch v. Maryland
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    Fletcher v. Peck
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    Marbury v. Madison
Q.7.
Which Supreme Court case held that the government cannot restrict independent political expenditures by corporations?
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    Buckley v. Valeo
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    New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
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    Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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    Schenck v. United States
Q.8.
Which Supreme Court case upheld the individual health insurance mandate included in the Affordable Care Act?
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    McDonnell v. United States
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    Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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    National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius
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    Zubik v. Burwell
Q.9.
Which Supreme Court case held that religious duty is not a legitimate defense to a criminal indictment?
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    Reynolds v. United States
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    McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union
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    Gideon v. Wainwright
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    Abington School District v. Schempp

George Reynolds was a member of the LDS Church and who, after marrying his second wife while married to his first wife, was charged with bigamy as per the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act. In the unanimous 1878

Q.10.
Which Supreme Court case established that a public official suing for defamation must prove that the statement was made with “actual malice?”
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    New York Times v. Sullivan
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    Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
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    Texas v. Johnson
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    Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Q.11.
Which Supreme Court case held that abortion is a fundamental right under the United States Constitution?
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    Gibbons v. Ogden
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    Gonzales v. Carhart
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    Roe v. Wade
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    Griswold v. Connecticut

In the 1973

Q.12.
Which Supreme Court case held that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn't protect speech that presents a “clear and present danger?”
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    Roth v. United States
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    Schenck v. United States
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    Miller v. California
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    New York Times v. Sullivan
Q.13.
Which Supreme Court case defined the First Amendment rights of public school students?
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    Everson v. Board of Education
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    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District
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    Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
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    Abington School District v. Schempp
Q.14.
Which Supreme Court case held that a narrowly tailored use of race in student admission decisions is permissible in order to obtain the educational benefits afforded by a diverse student body?
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
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    Loving v. Virginia
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    Grutter v. Bollinger
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    Griswold v. Connecticut
Q.15.
Which Supreme Court case held that the act of burning a flag is protected under the First Amendment?
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    Cohen v. California
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    Texas v. Johnson
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    Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
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    Griswold v. Connecticut
Q.16.
Which Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II?
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    Schenck v. United States
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    Cohen v. California
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford
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    Korematsu v. United States
Q.17.
Which Supreme Court case reaffirmed that obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment, and also redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material?
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    Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
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    Reynolds v. United States
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    Roth v. United States
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    Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
Q.18.
Which Supreme Court case held that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional?
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford
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    Brown v. Board of Education
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    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District
Q.19.
Which Supreme Court case held that people of African descent who were brought to the U.S. and held as slaves (and their descendants) were not U.S. citizens and were not protected by the Constitution?
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
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    Grutter v. Bollinger
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    Texas v. Johnson
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott was a slave who attempted to sue for his freedom.

Q.20.
Which Supreme Court case held that the Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to regulate any aspect of commerce that crosses state lines, including modes of transportation?
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    Marbury v. Madison
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    Gibbons v. Ogden
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    Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith
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    Fletcher v. Peck
Q.21.
Which Supreme Court case invalidated a state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives on the grounds that the law violated the right to marital privacy?
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    Griswold v. Connecticut
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    Roe v. Wade
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    Washington v. Glucksberg
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    Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Q.22.
Which Supreme Court case held that it is unconstitutional for state officials to write an official school prayer and to encourage students to recite it?
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    West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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    Engel v. Vitale
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    Reynolds v. United States
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    Lemon v. Kurtzman
Q.23.
Which Supreme Court case held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is applicable to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment?
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    Miranda v. Arizona
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    Gideon v. Wainwright
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    Weeks v. United States
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    Reid v. Covert
Q.24.
Which Supreme Court case established that evidence obtained through unreasonable searches and seizures, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, may not be used in state courts for state law criminal prosecutions?
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    Gideon v. Wainwright
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    Mapp v. Ohio
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    Katz v. United States
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    Miranda v. Arizona
Q.25.
Which Supreme Court case held that race-based quota systems in education violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution?
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    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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    Brown v. Board of Education
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
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    McCollum v. Board of Education
Q.26.
Which Supreme Court case invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage?
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    Bolling v. Sharpe
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    Loving v. Virginia
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    Obergefell v. Hodges
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    Plessy v. Ferguson
Q.27.
Which Supreme Court case held that the government, through the use of eminent domain, can claim and pass on privately owned land to another private owner if doing so results in economic development?
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    Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
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    Lochner v. New York
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    Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
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    Kelo v. City of New London
Q.28.
Which Supreme Court case held that the President cannot use executive privilege to withhold evidence that is relevant in a criminal trial?
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    United States v. Nixon
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    Bush v. Gore
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    Rasul v. Bush
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    Clinton v. Jones