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You are required to answer all questions in your own words to the best of your ability without plagiarizing. Your answers must be detailed, qualifying your knowledge of the course materials. Questions and answers must be typed, and the answers must include page numbers. The final exam must be double spaced with 12-point font (Times New Roman). The exam is open  Friday  12/10/ 2021 at 11:59 pm and close Sunday, 12/12/2021, at 11:59 pm.   

 

Chapter 7

1. Explain the meaning of search and seizure?

2. How does a stop different from an arrest?

3. How does a frisk differ from a search?

4. Explain why the Fourth Amendment applies to the federal government and to state, county, and municipal governments

5. Explain the meeting of search and seizure

6. What restrictions does the Fourth Amendment put on private security guards, such as store detectives or private investigators?

7. At what point does a frisk differ from a search?

8. How does a stop differ from an arrest?

 

Chapter 10

9. Should fines be  the same for the poor and the wealthy?

10. What historical background do you suspect led to the Eighth Amendment being included in the Bill of Rights?

11. Does the bail system discriminate against the poor?

12. Does the death penalty deter murder or rape? Why or why not?

13. Should juveniles or intellectually disabled individuals who have committed capital crimes be executed?

14. Explain the basic need for bail

15. Does the death penalty deter murder or rape? Why or why not?

16. Do you support the death penalty? Why or why not? Could you be an executioner or witness an execution?

Chapter 13

17. Discuss why the framers of the Constitution probably thought probably thought it necessary to include the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

18. Could the United States mot have a federal government? What about a less powerful federal government, and if so, what would this government do?

19. If you were to eliminate any portions of the Constitution which would they be? Why?

20. Does the Constitution work as well as it was meant to? Why or why not?

21. If you were to propose any new amendments what would they be?

22. Is there a present-day concern that the national government is too powerful?

23. Having come this far in your study of constitutional law, do you think the United States could ever get along without a written constitution? 

24. Please describe how you understand the United States Constitution and the individual rights it provides us?