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Which statement best describes the Court’s decision in its first major apportionment case, Colegrove v. Green?

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	Large apportionment discrepancies in legislative districts violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.		0
	Large apportionment discrepancies in legislative districts violate the Constitution’s republican form of government guarantee.		0
	Racially motivated redistricting violates the 15^th Amendment.		0
	The authority to draw district boundaries is a “political question,” which should not be decided in federal courts.		1

Which of the following statements about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is not true?

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	A two-thirds majority in Congress overrode Lyndon Johnson’s veto to pass the Act.		0
	The Act prohibited literacy tests.		0
	The Act applied more stringent standards to states that had a recent history of voter discrimination.		0
	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.		0

Which of the following statements best describes Chief Justice Rehnquist’s written opinion about the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Bush v. Gore?

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	He opposed the Court’s decision to accept the case, calling it a non-federal issue.		0
	He approved of the Court’s decision to accept the case because the appointment of Presidential electors presented a federal constitutional question.		0
	He opposed the Court’s decision to accept the case because there was no precedent for hearing such a case.		0
	He argued that the Supreme Court correctly accepted the case because all elections, even local contests, are federal issues.		0

In which case did the Supreme Court uphold the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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Your answer	Choice	Correct?	Score	Correct answer
	Lousiana v. United States		0
	Harper v. Viriginia State Board of Elections		0
	Alabama v. United States		0
	South Carolina v. Katzenbach		0

______ invalidated taxes on the privilege to vote in state and local elections?

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Your answer	Choice	Correct?	Score	Correct answer
	The Voting Rights Act of 1965		0
	The 15th Amendment		0
	The 24th Amendment		0
	The Court’s decision in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections		1

What was significant about the Supreme Court’s decision in Sanders?

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	It eliminated poll taxes.		0
	It forced states to ensure that legislative districts were equally apportioned.		0
	It indicated the Court’s willingness to apply principles of population equality to political entities other than legislatures.		0
	It forced states to make both houses of state legislatures population-based.		0

What amendment ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of a person’s sex?

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Your answer	Choice	Correct?	Score	Correct answer
	14th		0
	17th		0
	19th		1
	24th		0

Buckley v. Valeo set the GENERAL standard that the government may ______.

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	limit campaign contributions but not spending		0
	limit campaign spending but not contributions		0
	regulate both campaign spending and contributions		0

Citizens United found ______.

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	corporations have the right use funds to support candidates		0
	unions have the right to use funds to support their candidates		0
	unions and corporations have a speech right to use their funds independently of a campaign		0
	all of these		0

What standard has the Supreme Court applied to legislative redistricting based on race?

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	strict scrutiny		0
	heightened scrutiny		0
	rational basis test		0
	totality-of-circumstances		0

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)?

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	Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in federal elections but not for state and local elections.		0
	Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in all elections.		0
	Congress does not have the power to set a minimum age for voting in any elections.		0
	Congress has the power to set a minimum age for voting in state and local elections, but not in presidential elections.		0

Which of the following statements is True?

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	In Karcher v. Daggett, the Court upheld congressional redistricting where the population difference between the largest and smallest district was .6984 percent.		0
	The Court has allowed states much greater latitude in devising reapportionment plans for state legislatures than for federal congressional districts.		1
	The Court has created a specified mathematical standard for equality in federal congressional redistricting that must be followed in all reapportionment decisions.		0
	all of these		0

Since the early 1990s soft money has ______.

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	stayed about the same		0
	decreased dramatically		0
	increased dramatically		1
	had little effect on campaigns		0

What political body is in charge of apportionment (devising legislative districts)?

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Your answer	Choice	Correct?	Score	Correct answer
	the U.S. Supreme Court		0
	state Supreme Courts		0
	state legislatures		1
	the U.S. House of Representatives		0

The Court upheld the voter identification law in Crawford.

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Your answer	Choice	Correct?	Score	Correct answer
	True		1
	False		0

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