Module One
Private goods, Public goods, Toll goods, and Common goods
What is four types of goods in a capitalist society?
Refer to personal guarantees of freedoms that the government cannot infringe by law, constitution, or judicial interpretation
What is Civil Liberties?
Lay and collect taxes, barrow Manley, regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the states, establish rules for naturalization, coin money, declare war, and make all laws which are “necessary and proper” for carrying out its powers
What are some of the enumerated powers of Congress?
Created segregation in the south in schools, transportatio, and public areas
What are the Jin Crow Laws?
What is the rarest M&M color?
What is Brown?
People whereby the government would protect the rights (life, liberty, and property) of the people in return for the consent of the people to govern
What is the Social Contract theory?
What is the Lemon Test?
Enacted in 2002, it created a number of new campaign finance regulations. Legal challenges overturned provisions that limited the time limits on issue advocacy ads which opened the door to ongoing electioneering communications
What was the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?
Representatives vote the way their constituents want them to, weather or not those opinions are those of the representative
What is Delegate Model
In a website browser address bar, what does “www” stand for?
What is the World Wide Web?
Ensures that judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in another state
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
Ruled that the Second Amendement provides a const right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense.
What was decided in District of Columbia v. Heller?
The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the ban on electioneer communications maybe by corporations and unions
What happened in the Citizens United Case?
Representative listens to the opinions of constituents and then uses his or her own best judgement to make a final decision
What is Trustee Model
Which singer’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
Who is Lady Gaga?
Involves both levels of government coordinating actions to solve problems that are national in scope
What is Cooperative Federalism?
State police cannot use illegally obtained evidence against a defendant at trail?
What is the Exclusionary Rule?
Temporary committees set up to investigate issues
What is Select Committee?
Officially called the Opinion of the Court; announces the Court’s decision in a case and sets out the reasoning upon which it is based
What is Majority Opinion?
Where were the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights stored during World War II?
What is Fort Knox?
Given to state and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law
What is Categorical Grants?
A defendant must be informed of his or her constitutional rights
What are Miranda Rights?
A writ that provides the court will hear the case
What writ of certiorari ?
Written explanation of the views of one or more judges who support a decision reached by a majority of the court, but wish to add or emphasize a point that was not made in the majority decision?
What is Concurring Opinion?
What is the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace called?
What is an aglet?