1. Nevada's territorial and state judiciary was based on issues over

Group of answer choices:

a. All of the answers

b. The absence of early state statutes governing property rights

c. A backlog of property rights claims among silver mining interests

d. Judges behaving in unprofessional and inappropriate ways

2.Eighteen percent of voters in the general election votedthisin the 1984 race between Charles Thompson and Miriam Shearing for a seat on the state's Supreme Court; and again in the 1996 general election between Cliff Young and Steve Jones where 21 percent of voters also votedthisway. a. Abstain

b. For a write-in candidate

c. Independent

d. None of These Candidates

3. In an effort to improve its public image, Nevada's State Supreme Court made public the following types of proceedings, EXCEPT

a. disciplinary proceedings against attorneys by Nevada's bar association once probable cause is shown

b. private conferences

c. to make public the applications of those seeking appointment to the bench

d. administrative rule changes that effect how the court operates

4. Since 1939, _____ percent justices serving on the State Supreme Court were initially appointed to fill a midterm vacancy

a. 67%

b. 55%

c. 28%

d. 42%

5. The delegated role of county commissions is to oversee the administration of Nevada's state laws concerning which of the following?

a. elections, water and sewage maintenance, highways, utilities, and education

b. family law, education, law enforcement, sanitation, and emergency services

c. divorce, child custody issues, property code, law enforcement, marriage, and health

d. law enforcement, highways, family law, emergency services, health codes

6. Nevada is composed of more than a hundred non-education special district governments that have the power to levy taxation for specific public purposes, an authority delegated by the state at its discretion. Which of the following is NOT an example of a special district as discussed by Bowers?

a. water districts

b. school districts

c. cemetery districts

d. library districts

7. Heads of county departments are elected officials who keep to themselves a degree of autonomy from county commissions. Their election and terms of office mean that county department heads, like thesheriff, district attorney, and the county assessor, hold as much accountability to the voters as officials elected to the county commissions.

a. True

b. False

8. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows for "those powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This article empowers local governments like counties and municipalities to determine their own statutory authorities, autonomous from the state.

a. True

b. False

9. The final stage of a case in Nevada occurs when it reaches the State Supreme Court, making it the state's only appeals court. The State District Courts are courts with general jurisdiction over matters of state law, with justice and municipal courts having limited jurisdiction. State Supreme Court decisions dealing with state (questions of law) are not appealable to any other court, except in those cases where a federal constitutional question is raised.

a. True

b. False