The Judiciary
This type of legal system isn't about winning and losing, it's about uncovering facts and finding the truth.
Inquisitorial
Lemon Test
Post reconstruction laws designed to segregate society and harm freed slaves.
Jim Crow Laws
If a bill is introduced as a _____bill, the Rules committee gets more control over the how the bill will be debated, and voted on.
Committee of the whole
To be President, you must be 35, a natural born citizen, and
have lived in America for at least the past 14 years.
If a court tries cases for the very first time, it has
original jurisdiction
Oliver Wendell Holmes rule; expression is legal until it puts people in danger, including the person doing the expression.
Clear and Present Danger Rule
Segregation that is legally enforced, such as what happened after Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
DeJure segregation
In the Senate, debate can be prolonged through the use of a ________; the only way to stop this is via ________.
filibuster; cloture
If there are less than ten days left in the Congressional session and Congress delivers a bill to the President, he could do nothing and the bill would die. This is called
a pocket veto
Most criminal cases don't go to trial. They are instead resolved by
plea bargains
This occurs when an authority such as a government head, a principal of a school, or a CEO of a business, attempts to stop something from being published; generally unconstitutional, unless the publishing would harm national security.
Prior restraint
Which three amendments expanded suffrage?
15, 19, and 26
The minimum number of representatives in the House or Senators in the Senate required to take a legal vote.
Quorum
What two events began the process whereby the public trust of the presidency has eroded.
Vietnam and Watergate
The #3 person at the DoJ; represents the USA in all legal matters.
This law, passed in 1940, made it illegal for anyone to belong to a group that advocated the violent overthrow of the American government.
Smith Act
Obergefell v. Hodges
This agency works closely with Congress as it develops its annual budget.
CBO
This statute severely limits (unconstitutionally so, according to some) presidential authority over the armed forces.
War Powers Resolution of 1973
If you have been discriminated against and belong to a racial or ethnic group with a history of discrimination in America, judges will use ____________ to determine if the discrimination was illegal.
Strict scrutiny
In the US v. Leon (1984), created the ___________, which said that if police do their jobs fairly while using a flawed warrant, the exclusionary rule doesn't apply.
Good Faith exception
Ended poll taxes
24th amendment
These are the errand boys for the minority and majority leaders; they count votes, make deals with other Reps/Sens at the behest of their leader, and generally do what the leader needs them to do.
Whips
Which 20th century Presidents were mainly responsible for the growth in executive power?
The Roosevelts