Chapter 26

Quiz for Document 26-1: Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956)

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Question 1

What does the Declaration of Constitutional Principles prepared by 101 southern members of the U.S. Congress in 1956 suggest about how the southern states would respond to the Brown v. Board of Education decision issued by the Supreme Court earlier that year?A. The southern states would implement the changes mandated by the decision, even though they disagreed with the Court.
B. The states would refuse to implement the changes mandated by the decision while they awaited an appeal.
C. Southern states would resist any effort to desegregate schools and blame the resulting violence on northern agitators.
D. Southern governments would use state troops to resist school desegregation and encourage violent protest among local whites.

Question 2

The declaration argues against the use of the Fourteenth Amendment as the basis for the court’s decision of Brown v. Board of Education by pointing to theA. amendment’s intended purpose to protect states’ rights.
B. authority of biblical scripture.
C. illegitimacy of the Fourteenth Amendment.
D. prior history of the amendment’s interpretation.

Question 3

What does the declaration claim was the state of race relations in the South prior to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?A. Race relations were amicable.
B. Racial issues no longer existed.
C. Race relations were tense but stable.
D. Whites and Blacks were separate and equal.

Question 4

The declaration asserts that “parents should not be deprived by Government of the right to direct the lives and education of their own children.” What might the logical response have been from African American parents to this assertion?A. Constitutional principles cannot override parental authority over children’s education.
B. Government bureaucrats should be in charge of children’s education regardless of race.
C. Religious principles are superior to all governmental and constitutional powers.
D. Segregationist governments should not deprive African American parents of this same right.