Electoral College
The number of electoral votes currently needed to win a U.S. election.
What are 270 electoral votes?
A system of government in which powers are divided between a national government and a regional government. It allows for shared power, and dual sovereignty and creates a compound republic.
What is Federalism?
Three fundamental rules of government.
What are Institutions, Powers, and Protections?
The powers are guaranteed by the government. It has positive guarantees and displays what the government must ensure you can do.
What are civil rights?
Protections from government action. Negative guarantees, what the government cannot do.
What are Civil Liberties?
The number of electors in the current electoral college.
What are 538 electors?
What are Dual and Cooperative?
What is Constitutional Hardball?
Examples of Formal Race and Disenfranchisements.
What are poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy tests, and white primary?
It keeps the government responsive, it has a marketplace of ideas, and other checks are meaningless without it. Speech as a "preferred freedom".
What are reasons to protect the first amendment of free speech?
What are 3 electoral votes?
State refusal to cooperate with federal agencies and/or law enforcement.
What is Uncooperative Federalism?
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
What is the 3/5's Compromise?
Examples of Informal Race and Disenfranchisements.
What are social pressure, intimidation, and violence?
Must be content-neutral, with no prior restraint, may not be vague, and government must use the least drastic means of constraint.
What are limits on laws constraining speech?
The most recent president to lose the electoral college but win the election.
Who is Donald Trump?
A huge win for Federalists through the ability to raise armies, declare war, and the president is being commander in Chief.
What are National Security Powers?
Provided for a bicameral legislature, with representation in the House of Representatives according to population and in the Senate by equal numbers for each state.
What is the Conneticut Compromise?
Women were barred from voting, holding office, jury service, filing lawsuits, owning property. The 14th Amendment (equal protection) didn't apply to women. Women were still regarded as the center of home and family life.
What was Gender Discrimination?
Words whose "very utterance inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace“.
What is unprotected speech?
The year the electoral college was created.
What is 1787?
5 reasons why Federalism was chosen.
What are states already existed, fear of tyranny, the confederation had failed, unity without uniformity, and policy experimentation?
The biggest challenge the writers of the Constitution faced.
What is a stronger government that can prevent anarchy and tyranny while balancing conflicting interests?
The way in which courts evaluate discriminatory laws?
Strict scrutiny: the government must show compelling public interest. Heightened scrutiny: the government must have an important state purpose. Rational bias: some rational connection to a legitimate government purpose
Violence and property damage, trespassing, encroachment on rights of others, and burdens on government functions.
What are examples of non-speech that aren't supported by the first amendment?