Amendments
Courts
Landmark Cases
Florida
Federalism
100

This amendment abolished slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

The kind of federal court you would find a jury (Hint: at the bottom)

What is the U.S. District Court?

100

This case established the principle of Judicial Review.

What is Marbury V. Madison?

100

Another name for the President/Governor who must sign off on Federal Bills or State Bills in order for them to become law: Chief _____.

Who is the CHIEF EXECUTIVE?

100

The division of power between the Federal Government and the State Government.

What is FEDERALISM?

200

The Amendment that defined citizenship and said that states could not take away your rights.

What is the 14th amendment?

200

The Type of law involved when Mrs. Ellison sues Publix for a Slip and Fall.

What is Civil Law?

200

This case established the procedure that even poor defendants were entitled to a lawyer.

What is Gideon V. Wainwright?

200

Three things that the Florida and U.S. Constitution have in common?

What are ARTICLES, PREAMBLE AND AMENDMENTS (OR RIGHTS)?

200

Level of Government that provides Social Security.

What is the FEDERAL LEVEL?

300

The amendment that gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th amendment?

300

The lowest level of Florida Courts.

What is the Florida County Courts.

300
This case said school newspapers could be censored by the principal.

What is Hazelwood V. Kuhlmeier?

300

English is the official language and there are no state income taxes in this Constitution.

What is the Florida Constitution?

300

Taxing is an example of this kind of power.

What is a CONCURRENT power?

400

This amendment expanded voting rights to poor minorities.

What is the 24th Amendment?

400

What we have in the court room because citizens have a right to be judged by their peers.

What is a JURY?

400

This case re-affirmed that even the President is not above the law.

What is U.S. V. Nixon?

400

The third level of Florida Courts (up from the bottom) in the Florida Judicial System.

What is the Florida District Court of Appeals?

400

Level of government that protects us with a military and prints our money.

What is the FEDERAL LEVEL?

500

The amendment that most justified the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

What is the 14th amendment? (or the amendment that grants you equal protection under the law.)

500

The name of the appellate court in the Florida Court System.  

What is the Florida District Court of Appeal?

500

This case effectively overturned Plessy V. Ferguson by ruling that "separate but equal" was not OK.

What is Brown V. Board?

500

A common way to propose an amendment to the Florida AND the U.S. Constitution.

What is PROPOSING BY 2/3 OF THE LEGISLATURE?

500

The part of the Constitution that says state constitutions and state laws cannot overrule anything in the U.S. Constitution.

What is the SUPREMACY CLAUSE?

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