Near V. Minnesota (1931) Is Significant Because It

question 75

Multiple Choice

Near v. Minnesota (1931) is significant because it

• A) struck down ex post facto laws.
• B) protected the right of habeas corpus.
• C) forced state governments to obey the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
• D) held that the First Amendment prohibits government agencies from seeking to prevent newspapers or magazines from publishing whatever they wish.

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Definitions:

Contraposition

A method in logic for deriving a new statement by reversing and negating both the subject and predicate of the original statement.

Universal Proposition

A statement or proposition that asserts something of all members of a specific class or category.

Referents

Objects or events in the world that words or phrases refer to or denote.

Complement

A term designating the class of all things excluded by another term.