Judicial Branch Supreme
What level of court has witnesses and testimony?
Lower Court
What does the 8th Amendment guarantee?
No cruel and unusual punishment and no excessive bail.
Which thinker believed that all humans are brutish?
Thomas Hobbes
Individual rights are listed in what part of the US Constitution?
Bill of Rights
This document contains the rights of citizens and the duties of government. It is the highest law of the land in the United States.
Constitution
What is the name of the case that dealt with protest during World War One? Give the date, too!
Schenk V US (1919)
What the five rights guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom to Petition, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion
Which thinker talked a lot about feelings?
Rousseau
How many justices’ votes does it take to win a Supreme Court case?
Five
What is the Greek word meaning Rule of the People?
Democracy
"We should not allow people to shout fire in a crowded movie theater and create panic if there is no fire."
What case is this quote from?
Schenk V. US (1919)
What are the two parts to Freedom of Religion?
Establishment and Exercise
Which thinker thought that knowledge should be shared with everyone?
Diderot
Black armbands can be considered “symbolic speech” comes from what case? What year?
Tinker v. DesMoines (1969)
Individuals who thought that a strong central government defeated the purpose of the recent war against Great Britain were called what?
Anti-Federalists
What are the three levels of courts?
Lower, Appeals and Supreme
Which Amendment Protects the right to bear arms?
The 2nd Amendment
What thinker argued that women deserved the same rights as men?
Mary Wollstonecraft
In Doe v Santa Fe Independent School District (2000), students voted to have student-led prayer at football games over the school’s loudspeakers. The Supreme Court held?
School prayers were a government endorsement of a particular religion and thus a violation of the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment.
What is the term for a league of states loosely bound together?
Confederation
Who are the nine Supreme Court Justices? Who is Liberal? Who is Conservative? Who is the Chief Justice?
Liberals: Kagan, Jackson, Sotomayor (All Women)
Chief: Roberts (has become a swing)
Conservative: Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas
Which Amendment states: "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law"?
The 3rd Amendment
Who argued for the importance of checks and balances?
Montesquieu
In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Supreme Court said there are two reasons why speech can be prohibited. What were the two reasons?
The court held: Speech can only be prohibited if the speech is (1) “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and (2) it is “likely to incite or produce such action.”
What is the term for a law-making body that consists of two separate houses or chambers (like the Senate and the House of Representatives.
A Bicameral Legislature