Exam 11: Law, Social Change, and the Class Struggle

Although the courts have since reasserted this power, under which 1932 act did Congress strip the federal courts of their power to issue injunctions against labor unions engaged in labor disputes?

Albert Einstein defined idiocy as "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome".

The U.S. Supreme Court did not assert the power of judicial review until Chief Justice John Marshall explored the Court's power in this regard in which case?

The Mutiny Act required colonists to provision and maintain the British army.

Which of the following describes the law as a cause of social change?

Once a social movement is observed successfully making its rights claim, other previously silent groups are aroused in what has been called a(n) _______________ effect.

Social change may be defined as any relatively enduring alteration in social relationships, behavior patterns, values, norms, and attitudes occurring over time.

Which event established the principle that the English constitution, not the monarch, was sovereign?

There is an isolated relationship between law and social change.

____________ has a powerful hold on the psychology of people; they obey this type of authority because it is often invested with a kind of quasi-divine inspiration and perhaps because "it has always been there."

In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Congress could charter a national bank and that the individual states could not tax it, thus providing for an instrument of national economic stability while at the same time limiting the sovereignty of the states vis-à-vis the federal government?

Strict constructionists look for "_____________," meaning that they will peruse relevant material in an effort "to discover what the collective intention of the Framers was on disputed matters of interpretation".

Which British act was designed to eliminate illegal trade of a specific product between the colonies and the French and Spanish West Indies?

Meritocracy is defined as the rule of the wealthy.

What makes constitutions "____________" is the fact that they are collections of documents and traditions added to over the centuries, and their flexibility makes them quickly responsive to evolving conditions and concerns.

Legitimacy is the ability to command compliance with rules despite the lack of objective means to compel it.

What appeals to our moral sentiments because it is a process by which we expect to "make things right"?

Under the constrained view, only a limited number of issues can come before the U.S. Supreme Court because the Court lacks the necessary independence from other branches of government.

What has the U.S. Supreme Court done to impact social change? Have they been largely positive or negative? Explain your answer.

What type of U.S. Supreme Court decisions are reviled and widely considered to have been decided wrongly?