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The use of the term secular, when referring to public policy, means that _____.
 
  a. public policy should serve a purpose apart from religion
 b. religious citizens have their freedom of religion limited
  c. religion can never be part of public policy
 d. students in public schools do not say the Pledge of Allegiance
  e. all of these

 Q. 2

Which statement is not true?
 
  a. Parents can refuse to have their children vaccinated against smallpox on the grounds that it violates their religious convictions.
  b. Parents who refuse to salute the flag as a matter of religious conviction cannot be deprived of custody of their child.
  c. Members of a church are not denied their religious freedom by a zoning law that restricts the use of property around the church building to single-family dwellings.
  d. The freedom to worship requires the freedom not to worship.
  e. States can provide school lunches and public facilities for church-run schools as long as government agencies do not show a preference for one church over another.

 Q. 3

Your text concludes that the First Amendment freedom of expression is not designed to protect conventional or conformist views; _____.
 
  a. nevertheless, its greatest impact has been, in fact, in protecting those same views
  b. but its focus on gun rights has made it a very conservative amendment
 c. instead, it is designed to protect the expression of despised or controversial views
  d. rather, the founding fathers wanted to focus primarily on religious expression
  e. all of these

 Q. 4

Why did the arrest of Gregory Lee Johnson violate the First Amendment while the arrest of fifty Austin antiwar protesters did not violate the First Amendment?
 
  a. The antiwar protesters were violent; Johnson was not.
  b. Johnson did not have a microphone, but the antiwar protesters did.
  c. Johnson did not interfere with the rights of other people, whereas the protesters disrupted the lives of others.
  d. Austin police officers are better-trained than Dallas police officers.
  e. There was no difference in the actions; the Supreme Court was arbitrary in its decision.

 Q. 5

In the 1989 decision of Texas v. Johnson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that _____.
 
  a. burning the flag is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment
  b. public prayers at high school football games violate the First Amendment
  c. the First Amendment protects the right of antiabortion activists to picket abortion clinics
  d. Ku Klux Klan demonstrations are protected by the First Amendment
  e. the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right of private citizens to carry firearms

 Q. 6

The process of applying the First Amendment freedoms of the U.S. Constitution to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment is known as _____.
 
  a. prior restraint
  b. due process of law
  c. civil action
  d. nullification
  e. incorporation
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6 years ago
Thank you for your assistance, again and again
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6 years ago
My pleasure
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