Bill of Rights
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100
A limit on freedom of speech.
What is libel, slander, or fighting words.
100
These are the Civil War amendments.
What is 13th, 14th, and 15th?
100
The amendment that states that one state cannot sue another state in federal court?
What is the 11th amendment?
100
This is the case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
Number of justices on Supreme Court and how long they may serve?
What is 9 and for life?
200
Define eminent domain.
What is when government takes away private property for public use.
200
The amendment that prohibited alcohol.
What is the 18th?
200
The amendment that abolished the poll tax.
What is the 24th amendment?
200
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that one must be provided with a lawyer.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
200
The amendment that repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st?
300
This amendment was used in the Miranda v. Arizona decision.
What is the 5th amendment?
300
The amendment that limits a president to 2 four year terms?
What is the 22nd?
300
The amendment that states that Congress cannot vote itself a pay raise?
What is the 27th?
300
The Supreme court case that said separate but equal was acceptable was __________________. The case that reversed it was __________________.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?
300
The Supreme Court case that established the exclusionary rule.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
400
If a person is found not guilty of a crime, then he confesses to doing it, what is his punishment and why is this so?
What is No punishment because of the protection against double jeopardy.
400
The amendment that changed the rules for the electoral college. Prior to this amendment the person with the most electoral votes would be president. The person with the 2nd most electoral votes would be vice president.
What is the 12th amendment?
400
Even though Congress cannot vote themselves a pay raise, their pay can still go up. How can this happen.
What iare COLAs? What is voting a payraise for the next group coming in (and they are normally re-elected)
400
The Supreme Court case that stated that it was acceptable for public school buses to bring students to private schools.
What is Everson v. Bd. of Education?
400
The amendment that states you have more rights than those listed.
What is the 9th amendment?
500
One of the two reasons the federalists said a Bill of Rights was not needed.
What is 1. There is no way you can list all the rights people should have. 2. There are already protections listed in the Constitution.
500
Explain how the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment has been used?
What is integration of schools, marriage rights, etc.?
500
What present day issue has people discussing the meaning of the 24th amendment?
What is having to purchase IDs to vote?
500
This Supreme Court Case state that one could not bring a slave into a free territory for that slave to gain freedom. Furthermore, the Chief Justice in this case said that blacks were not citizens.
What is Dred Scot v. Sanford?
500
How did Justice John Marshall establish judicial review in 1803?
What is : After Jefferson refused to give commissions, Marbury appealed to the Supreme Court. John Marshall said that the law that would allow him to rule in that case was unconstitutional, therefore, establishing the principal of judicial review.
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