Order in the Court
The Supreme Court justice who established the principle of judicial review.
Who is John Marshall?
The philosopher who inspired the Declaration of Independence's guarantee of your right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Who is John Locke?
The amendment that outlines your right to peaceably protest.
What is the first amendment?
Spending Bills must be voted on first in this chamber of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
This practice where political parties assert their control over redistricting.
What is gerrymandering?
What is selective incorporation?
"____ is to freedom as fire is to air."
What is faction?
The amendment that justifies prohibitions on school segregation.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Congress can override a Presidential veto with ____ of the vote.
What is 2/3?
Before cases appear before the Supreme Court they typically go through this sector of the judiciary.
What is the Court of Appeals?
The clause that grants the federal government powers over rivers in the case, Gibbons v. Ogden.
What is the commerce clause?
The idea for the executive branch that Alexander Hamilton refuted in Federalist 70.
Who are co-Presidents?
The president's power to pass executive order is a _____ power of the Constitution.
What is an implied power?
The Supreme Court asserted the supremacy of the federal government over the states in this Supreme Court case.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The one leadership role in the House of Representatives explicitly laid out in the Constitution.
What is the House of Representatives?
The controlling amendment at the center of the case, McDonald v. Chicago.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Anti-Federalists were concerned that this power of Congress would be foundational to their establishment of a tyranny.
What is a standing army?
Taxation is a power that is shared by both the states and federal government, making it a
What is a concurrent power?
The power that the Senate has which can check the power of the President to negotiate foreign affairs.
What is the power to vote on treaties?
What is the 16th Amendment?
What are black arm bands?
The group Martin Luther King found most frustrating in his Letter from Birmingham Jail for their preference for "negative peace" as opposed to a "positive peace" which indicates the presence of justice.
Who are the white moderates?
The power of Congress to establish a patent office is laid out in this section of the Constitution
What is Article 1 Section 8?
Constitutional Amendments must be approved by two thirds of Congress and three fourths of _________.
What are state legislatures?
The Constitutionally mandated role in the Senate is third in line for the Presidency if the President dies.
Who is the President Pro Tempore?