This amendment repealed the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
What is the twenty-first Amendment?
100
The institutions and procedures through which a land and its people are ruled.
What is government?
100
The founding father who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The division of a legislative assembly into two chambers or houses.
What is bicameralism? (bicameral)
100
A fundamental right not explicitly listed in the Constitution that gives one the right to be "left alone."
What is the right to privacy?
200
This amendment guarantees due process, prohibits double jeopardy, and self-incrimination.
What is the fifth amendment?
200
Conflict, struggle, cooperation, and collaboration over the leadership, structure, and policies of government.
What is politics?
200
The Boston attorney and future president of the United States who defended the British soldiers who were involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams.
200
Limiting government by dividing it into two levels, national and state each with sufficient independence to compete with the other.
What is federalism?
200
Legal or moral claims citizens are entitled to make on the government
What are civil rights?
300
This amendment addresses the rights of the people that are not specifically mentioned in the constitution (exp. privacy)
What is the ninth amendment?
300
The idea that all political behavior has a purpose.
What is the rationality principle?
300
The name for the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
The presidential veto power over legislation, the power of the Senate to approve presidential appointments, and judicial review over acts of Congress and presidential actions.
What are examples of "checks and balances"?
300
The provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that has been the basis for the civil rights of African Americans, women, and other groups.
What is the equal protection clause?
400
This amendment prohibits poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
400
The idea that politics involves many people who compete, bargain and cooperate.
What is the collective action principle?
400
The fundamental rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
400
The condition in which the presidency is controlled by one political party while the opposing party controls one or both houses of Congress (Senate/House).
What is divided government?
400
Speech accompanied by activities such as picketing, distributing leaflets, or other forms of peaceful demonstration.
What is speech plus?
500
This amendment establishes the beginning and ending of the terms for the President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives?
What is the 20th Amendment?
500
The five principles of politics.
What are the rationality principle, the institution principle, the collective action principle, the policy principle, and the history principle.
500
The United States' first written Constitution, adopted on November of 1777 by the Continental Congress.
What are the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union?
500
The incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment that took place slowly over time via the courts.
What is selective incorporation?
500
The clause in the Bill of Rights that protects a citizen’s right to believe and practice whatever religion he or she chooses.