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Chapter 20 – Text Assignment
Section 1
1. What is the “fundamental” definition of “due process”?
2. Distinguish between procedural due process and substantive due process:
3. How does Rochin v. California demonstrate a violation of procedural due process?
4. How does Pierce v. Society of Sisters demonstrate a violation of substantive due process?
5. List some of the specific ways that the authority of the state to insure health, safety, morals and
welfare have take precedence over individual liberties:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
6. Identify the three levels of protection of a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy as determined by
the Court in Roe v. Wade:
a.
b.
c.
7. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in each of the following cases:
Griswold v. Connecticut
Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
Planed Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
Section 2
8. How is the Thirteenth Amendment unique as compared to other provisions of the Constitution?
9. Under what circumstances can involuntary servitude be imposed?
10. When do police NOT need a warrant to conduct a search?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
11. List and describe the four exceptions to the exclusionary:
a.
b.
c.
d.
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12. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in each of the following cases:
Jones v. Mayer
District of Columbia v. Heller
Mapp v. Ohio
National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab
Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association
Vernonia School District v. Acton
Katz v. United States
13. Define each of the following:
probable cause
exclusionary rule
Section 3
1.What is the purpose of the writ of habeas corpus?
2. Under what circumstances can habeas corpus be suspended?
3. What is the purpose of the right to grand jury?
4. What two rights “collide” when the media covers a criminal trial?
5. Why would a defendant ask for a change of venue?
6. What is the purpose of the Fifth Amendment’s ban on self-incrimination?
7. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in each of the following cases:
Gideon v. Wainwright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
8. Define each of the following:
bill of attainder
ex post facto law
grand jury
indictment
double jeopardy
Section 4
9. For what two purposes is bails used?
a.
b.
10. When punishments have been questioned as being “cruel and unusual”, how has the court typically
ruled?
11. What did the Court say about the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia?
12. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in each of the following cases:
Gregg v. Georgia
Coker v. Georgia
Atkins v. Virginia
Roper v. Simmons
Baze v. Rees
13. Under what circumstances can treason be committed?
14. Define each of the following :
prevention detention