In Korematsu v. United States (1944) the Supreme stated that a presidential order authorizing the exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from designated areas along the west coast of the United States
a. was an unconstitutional deprivation of due process and equal protection.
b. was inherently suspect but ultimately constitutional.
c. had a rational basis.
d. presented a nonjusticiable political question.
Question -2-In response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, the elite in the United States responded by enacting the PATRIOT act which __________________.
a. restrictedfreedom in the name of protecting democracy.
b. promotedfreedom in order to irritate Osama bin Laden.
c. ejectedterrorist sympathizers from the elite.
d. triedto reverse a loss of mass confidence in government.
Question -3-This political theorist argued that political power should be viewed as a means to prevent chaos and warfare.
a. Peter Abelard
b. Niccolo Machiavelli
c. Thomas Hobbes
d. John Locke
e. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Question -4-In _____ the Court held that the president could not authorize a plan to place detainees before military commissions, and that such a plan was unauthorized by statute and violated international law.
a. United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)
b. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
c. Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981)
d. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
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