AP Government Quiz: Testing Your Knowledge of Obergefell v. Hodges

📚 Quick Study Guide

• ⚖️ Case Name: Obergefell v. Hodges
• 📅 Year Decided: 2015
• 🏛️ Court: U.S. Supreme Court
• ❓ Central Issue: Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of state.
• 📜 Constitutional Basis: Fourteenth Amendment (specifically the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses).
• ✅ Key Ruling: The Court held that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• 🌍 National Impact: Invalidated state laws banning same-sex marriage, effectively legalizing it nationwide.
• 🗣️ Majority Opinion Author: Justice Anthony Kennedy.

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which year was the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges decided?
   A) 1996
   B) 2005
   C) 2015
   D) 2018
2. Obergefell v. Hodges primarily dealt with which fundamental right?
   A) Right to bear arms
   B) Right to free speech
   C) Right to marry
   D) Right to privacy
3. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution was central to the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges?
   A) First Amendment
   B) Fifth Amendment
   C) Tenth Amendment
   D) Fourteenth Amendment
4. The Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges effectively did what across the United States?
   A) Restricted voting rights
   B) Legalized same-sex marriage
   C) Established national healthcare
   D) Banned affirmative action
5. Which two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment were cited by the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges to support its decision?
   A) Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause
   B) Full Faith and Credit Clause and Supremacy Clause
   C) Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
   D) Takings Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause
6. Who authored the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges?
   A) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
   B) Justice John Roberts
   C) Justice Anthony Kennedy
   D) Justice Clarence Thomas
7. Before Obergefell v. Hodges, the legality of same-sex marriage was determined by:
   A) Federal law
   B) Presidential executive order
   C) Individual state laws
   D) International treaties