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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law (The Law and the Constitution and Lawyers, Judges, and the Practice of Law).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginsburg believe Thomas Jefferson would do regarding how the idea of equality has expanded over the decades?
(a) He would not know what to think about it.
(b) He would applaud it.
(c) He would mock it.
(d) He would argue against it.

2. To what is a judge bound regarding court cases?
(a) Public opinion.
(b) The beliefs of the other branches of the government.
(c) To decide each case fairly, in accord with the relevant facts and the applicable law.
(d) To the laws as they were created and interpreted over 200 years ago.

3. What is the problem with the wording, "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex”?
(a) People can distort its meaning.
(b) It is prejudice.
(c) It does not include all people.
(d) People will eagerly break this law.

4. What does Ginsburg consider herself, regarding her interpretation of the Constitution?
(a) A structuralist.
(b) A textualist.
(c) An originalist.
(d) A non-originalist.

5. Any human rights guarantee that is phrased in grand, general terms is vulnerable to what campaign?
(a) A contest marketing campaign.
(b) A rebranding campaign.
(c) A canvassing campaign.
(d) A scare campaign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is missing from the 1787 Constitution and from the Bill of Rights?

2. For what does Justice Ginsburg consistently call?

3. Which Amendment does Ginsburg believe is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete?

4. Why does Ginsburg believe the law exists?

5. One of Ginsburg’s professors, Robert E. Cushman, called to his students’ attention the injustices of what organization?

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