Select a Chapter to start the quiz.
The Court upheld the voter identification law in Crawford.
In which case did the Supreme Court uphold the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Lousiana v. United States
Harper v. Viriginia State Board of Elections
Alabama v. United States
South Carolina v. Katzenbach
What political body is in charge of apportionment (devising legislative districts)?
the U.S. Supreme Court
state Supreme Courts
state legislatures
the U.S. House of Representatives
Which of the following statements best describes Chief Justice Rehnquist’s written opinion about the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Bush v. Gore?
He opposed the Court’s decision to accept the case, calling it a non-federal issue.
He approved of the Court’s decision to accept the case because the appointment of Presidential electors presented a federal constitutional question.
He opposed the Court’s decision to accept the case because there was no precedent for hearing such a case.
He argued that the Supreme Court correctly accepted the case because all elections, even local contests, are federal issues.
Which statement best describes the Court’s decision in its first major apportionment case, Colegrove v. Green?
Large apportionment discrepancies in legislative districts violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Large apportionment discrepancies in legislative districts violate the Constitution’s republican form of government guarantee.
Racially motivated redistricting violates the 15th Amendment.
The authority to draw district boundaries is a “political question,” which should not be decided in federal courts.
Since the early 1990s soft money has ______.
stayed about the same
decreased dramatically
increased dramatically
had little effect on campaigns
Citizens United found ______.
corporations have the right use funds to support candidates
unions have the right to use funds to support their candidates
unions and corporations have a speech right to use their funds independently of a campaign
all of these
______ invalidated taxes on the privilege to vote in state and local elections?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 15th Amendment
The 24th Amendment
The Court’s decision in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections
Which of the following statements best describes the Supreme Court’s decision in Oregon v. Mitchell (note that the decision occurred before the 26th Amendment was passed)?
Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in federal elections but not for state and local elections.
Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in all elections.
Congress does not have the power to set a minimum age for voting in any elections.
Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in state and local elections, but not in presidential elections.
What standard has the Supreme Court applied to legislative redistricting based on race?
strict scrutiny
heightened scrutiny
rational basis test
totality-of-circumstances
What was significant about the Supreme Court’s decision in Sanders?
It eliminated poll taxes.
It forced states to ensure that legislative districts were equally apportioned.
It indicated the Court’s willingness to apply principles of population equality to political entities other than legislatures.
It forced states to make both houses of state legislatures population-based.
What amendment ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of a person’s sex?
14th
17th
19th
24th
Buckley v. Valeo set the GENERAL standard that the government may ______.
limit campaign contributions but not spending
limit campaign spending but not contributions
regulate both campaign spending and contributions
Which of the following statements about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is not true?
A two-thirds majority in Congress overrode Lyndon Johnson’s veto to pass the Act.
The Act prohibited literacy tests.
The Act applied more stringent standards to states that had a recent history of voter discrimination.
A state could be removed from coverage by convincing the District Court for the District of Columbia that no discrimination had been practiced for five years.
Which of the following statements is True?
In Karcher v. Daggett, the Court upheld congressional redistricting where the population difference between the largest and smallest district was .6984 percent.
The Court has allowed states much greater latitude in devising reapportionment plans for state legislatures than for federal congressional districts.
The Court has created a specified mathematical standard for equality in federal congressional redistricting that must be followed in all reapportionment decisions.
