Select a Chapter to start the quiz.
Lawrence v. Texas overruled what previous decision?
Stanley v. Georgia
Bowers v. Hardwick
Griswold v. Connecticut
Katz v. United States
Substantive due process draws on what key word in the 14th Amendment?
liberty
freedom
substance
procedural
In Lochner v. New York (1905), the court relied on what doctrine in its decision?
rational basis
substantive due process
strict scrutiny
undue burden
In the majority opinion in Roe, where did the Court locate the right to privacy?
Ninth Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Where does the word privacy first appear in the Constitution?
First Amendment
It is not in the Constitution.
Which statement best describes the Supreme Court’s decisions in cases involving state funding of abortions?
The court has consistently ruled that states must fund abortions in the first trimester if the mother cannot afford it.
The court has consistently ruled that states have no obligations to fund abortions.
The court originally ruled states must fund abortions, but has since overruled its past decision.
The court has yet to hear a case involving funding restrictions on abortions.
In what case did the Supreme Court’s majority opinion reject Roe’s trimester framework?
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
The trimester framework has not been rejected.
On what did Justice O’Connor base her concurring opinion in Lawrence v. Texas?
her disagreement with the decision in Bowers v. Hardwick
her disagreement with the decision in Stanley v. Georgia
the substantive component of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause
the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause
Which of the following amendments was not cited as a location of the right to privacy in the Griswold opinions?
First
Fourth
Eighth
Ninth
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, what provision of the Pennsylvania statute was ruled an “undue burden” and thus invalidated?
informed consent
parental consent for minors
recordkeeping for health purposes
spousal notification
In Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that drug testing of student athletes ______.
violated the Constitution because minors are a protected group
violated the Constitution because athletes were treated differently than non-athletes
did not violate the Constitution because all forms of random drug testing are Constitutional
did not violate the Constitution because students, especially student athletes, have reduced privacy expectations
In general, how has the Supreme Court ruled on the issue of parental consent for minors seeking an abortion?
It has upheld most requirements of parental consent.
It has deemed most requirements of parental consent unconstitutional.
It has allowed doctors to determine if parents should be notified.
It has yet to hear a case on the issue.
What justice wrote a dissent in Olmstead v. United States that became an important opinion in the right to privacy debate?
John Harlan
Potter Stewart
Louis Brandeis
Harry Blackmun
In Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, the Supreme Court ______.
upheld state laws making assisted suicide a crime
struck down state laws making assisted suicide a crime
upheld state laws allowing random drug testing in the work place
struck down state laws allowing random drug testing in the work place
What was the test proposed by O’Connor in her Akron dissent?
the substantive due process test
the rational basis test
the undue burden test
the abortion protection test
