AMENDMENTS
Which amendment includes freedom of the press?
What is the First Amendment
Which 1954 supreme court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of education
How many branches does the U.S. government have
What is 3
What is the form of government established by the United States Constitution?
What is Representative Democracy
What term describes the division of powers and functions between the national government and lower levels of government?
What is federalism
The Eleventh Amendment prohibits:
What is Citizens from a US state or foreign nation from suing another US state in federal court
The power of judicial review was established when
What is when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
What is the key difference between a federal government and a confederate government?
What is in a federal government, the national government and the states share power. In a confederate government, state governments have the most power.
Which article of the U.S. Constitution grants the power to coin money, make treaties, and levy import duties?
What is Article I
A state government’s authority to regulate the health, safety, welfare, and morals of its citizens is frequently referred to as
What is the police power
What process does the Twelfth Amendment define?
What is The election of the President and Vice President
In McCulloch v. Maryland, the supreme court declared that
What is Congress can pass any laws that are "Necessary and proper"
Creating a task force to implement regulations about making medicines safe for citizens is an example of what?
What is executive power
What form of government transmits authority according to the rules of heredity?
What is monarchy
The process of transferring responsibility for policy from the national level to the state level is known as
What is devolution
Which amendment to the Constitution states that the powers the Constitution does not delegate to the national government or prohibit to the states are "reserved to the states"?
What is the Tenth Amendment
Which Supreme Court case established that evidence obtained through unreasonable searches and seizures, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, may not be used in state courts for state law criminal prosecutions?
What is Mapp v. Ohio
T/F this best illustrates the concept of limited government.
The Supreme Court ruled that a law passed by Congress was unconstitutional
What is TRUE
What political and economic system advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned by the community as a whole?
What is Socialism
The principle that allows the federal government to take over areas of regulation from states or local governments is called
What is preemption
A man is walking down a public street window-shopping. A robbery is reported in that same area. Police officers stop and search the man who is shopping.
On what Constitutional grounds could this man contest this search as a violation of his rights?
What is the Fourth Amendment
Which Supreme Court case established the basis for the exercise of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution?
What is Marbury v. Madison
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson
What idea does the author of the passage advocate?
What is popular sovereignty
What term describes a temporary government set-up following political upheaval?
What is Transitional Government
Most states have amended their constitutions to guarantee that their larger cities will have the authority to manage local affairs without interference from the state government. This power is called
What is home rule