Which of the following best describes the internal workings of the Supreme Court?
A) The internal workings of the Court are subject to continual scrutiny by the press.
B) The internal workings of the Court are secret.
C) The internal workings of the Court are given wide publicity.
D) The Constitution requires that the internal workings of the Court be public.
E) No one has ever been able to secure any information about the internal workings of the Supreme Court.
Question -2-Congress may attempt to overturn specific Supreme Court rulings by utilizing which of the following?
A) proposing an amendment to the Constitution
B) passing legislation
C) withholding the salaries of the Supreme Court justices
D) a and b
E) none of the above
Question -3-When the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could lower the voting age to eighteen in federal but not in state elections, which of the following was ratified to reverse that decision?
A) the Twenty-sixth Amendment
B) the Seventeenth Amendment
C) the Eighteenth Amendment
D) the Sixteenth Amendment
E) the Tenth Amendment
Question -4-The amendment that reversed the Supreme Court ruling that declared the congressional levying of an income tax to be unconstitutional was
A) the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
B) the Seventeenth Amendment.
C) the Eighteenth Amendment.
D) the Sixteenth Amendment.
E) the Fourteenth Amendment.
Question -5-Which of the following introduced court-stripping legislation designed to restrict the Supreme Court's jurisdiction and remove its power over cases dealing with abortion and school prayer?
A) Abe Fortas
B) Earl Warren
C) Jesse Helms
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
E) Thomas Dewey
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