There was no Judicial Branch under this government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Constitutional Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Court decision that granted the Supreme Court the right of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Additional money charged for purchases.
What is Sales Tax?
An economic term for limited resources.
What is Scarcity?
The number of Courts specifically described in Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
What is one?
Constitutional Amendment that granted citizenship to those born in the country.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Supreme court decision that requires states to redistrict after the census every 10 years.
What is Baker v. Carr?
Money charged based on the value of your home and car.
What is Property Tax?
Jamal chooses to go to school rather than go to work at his fast food restaurant job.
What is his job?
Type of jurisdiction that pertains to a case the 1st time it is heard.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
Constitutional Amendment that gave suffrage rights to African American males.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Supreme Court decision that cemented Federal Supremacy over the States.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Money taken out of your paycheck by the government.
What is Income Tax?
The U.S. government spends tax dollars on the military rather than building a new V.A. hospital.
What is the V.A. hospital?
The only federal court to have both original and appellate jurisdiction.
What is the Supreme Court?
The 14th Amendment requirement for the states.
What is to provide "equal protection" to all citizens?
Supreme Court decisions that overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A system where all individuals pay the same percentage of their paycheck to the government.
What is a Flat Tax?
Joe sleeps in rather than wakes up and goes to school.
What is going to school?
Type of court that decides if a convicted individual received a fair trial originally or if they should receive a new trial.
What is appeals court?
The term used to describe unfairly and illegally favoring one group of citizens over another?
What is discrimination?
Supreme Court decision that stated, "students do not shed their constitutional rights at the school house gate".
What is Tinker v Des Moines?
The current tax system used in the United States.
What is a Progressive Tax System
Sereena buys new brakes for his car rather than a birthday gift for his friends.
What is the birthday gift?