Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
What is a Miranda V Arizona?
100
No Citizen can be denied of their legal rights. They cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without legal procedures.
What is Due Process?
100
The state or federal district randomly pulls names off of a list of registered voters, a list of people who hold driver's licenses, or a list of people receiving unemployment benefits to help in legal proceedings.
What is jury duty?
100
Number of electoral votes needed to win presidency
What is 270?
200
This is known as the representational government in the colonies in England. Limited the power of the king
What is the Magna Carta?
200
(1961) strengthened the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, making it illegal for evidence obtained without a warrant to be used in a criminal trial in state court.
What is Mapp V Ohio?
200
It protects civil rights and liberties by striking down laws that violate the constitution passed by congress
What is the supreme court?
200
the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality or local government area to listen to the opinions of the local citizens and determine if laws need to be enforced.
What is the city council?
200
Two main parties currently in the United States
What is the republican and democratic?
300
Established by Article I of the Constitution, this consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress.
What is the legislative branch?
300
Historic Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States.
What is Roe V Wade?
300
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown V Board of Education?
300
The process by which a person forms his or her political views.
What is political socialization?
300
A period when a significant shift occurs in the coalitions of national political parties.
What is a realignment (or critical period)?
400
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
What is the 16th amendment?
400
(1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
What is Engel V Vitale?
400
A speedy and public trial by jury for all who are accused of a crime. A trial by jury to be held for certain civil disputes. Prevention of those accused from suffering cruel and unusual punishment
What are the 6th, 7th, 8th amendments?
400
A government-printed, uniform, secret ballot adopted in the U.S. around 1890.
What is the Australian ballot?
400
This political party challenged the Jacksonian Democrats, but the Democrats typically dominated politically throughout this party era.
What was the Whig party?
500
an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
(1963), the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
What is Gideon V Wainwright?
500
This landmark case's majority opinion created the "clear and present danger test" to analyze future free speech cases.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
500
This law - requiring states to allow citizens to register to vote at the DMV - increased voter registration dramatically.
What is the motor-voter law? (National Voter Registration Act of 1993)
500
Party leaders and elected officials who automatically become delegates to the national convention.