Which of the following statements is true?
A) The Prime Minister of Great Britain is both a symbol of national unity and chief of state.
B) The U.S. president is both the symbol of national unity and the chief of state.
C) The Queen of England is both the symbol of national unity and chief of state.
D) England does not have a person who is the symbol of national unity.
E) The United States does not have a person who is the symbol of national unity.
Question -2-What do critics of the living-constitution theory contend?
A) It reduces constitutional interpretation to the judge's personal understanding of the meaning of American history.
B) The Constitution is a short document that left many issues undecided and used ambiguous language in order to win ratification, making a literal reading difficult.
C) Many issues upon which the courts must render decisions were never contemplated by those who wrote the Constitution.
D) Very few issues of constitutionality are as simple as the readers of the living-constitution theory make them out to be.
E) Judges are often too partisan to interpret the constitution in any other way but its original intent.
Question -3-What is suspect classification?
A) The categorization of a particular group that will be closely scrutinized by the courts to see whether its use is unconstitutional
B) The method by which prisoners were sent off to prison
C) The rule stating that only the actions of state and local governments (not those of private individuals) must conform to the equal protection clause
D) Primary elections, held by the Democratic Party, that divided the races into different classifications
E) Whenever gender is used in classification
Question -4-What are civil rights?
A) The right to equal treatment under the law
B) The freedoms that together preserve the rights of a free people
C) The rights listed in the first three Amendments to the Constitution
D) The rights of all people to share equally in the success of the nation
E) Rights created by Congress to uphold the equal treatment of all citizens
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