Supreme Court Cases
Principles of the Constitution
Important People
Amendments to the Constitution
Potpourri
100
This Supreme Court case that established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison
100
A government in which the people rule
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Wrote the "Federalist Papers"
Who is Alexander Hamilton
100
This amendment grants many personal freedoms
What is the first amendment
100
To divide up or allocate
What is apportioned?
200
This Supreme Court case required law enforcement to read people their rights when arresting them
What is Miranda v. Arizona
200
The dividing of a government into different branches with powers distinct from one another
What is Separation of Powers
200
Many of our government's founding principles based on this man's views.
Who is John Locke
200
This amendment protects from rights not enumerated in the Constitution
What is the Ninth Amendment?
200
This body elects the President of the United States
What is Electoral College
300
This Supreme Court case that established that separate black and white schools were unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units
What is Federalism
300
He wrote "Common Sense"
Who is Thomas Paine
300
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote
What is the Seventeenth Amendment
300
This plan that gave an outline for the modern Senate
What is the New Jersey Plan
400
This Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400
A government in which the officials are elected for a predetermined time by the people
What is Republicanism?
400
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This amendment limited the number of terms a President could serve
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
400
This clause of the First Amendment says that government may not establish an official religion
What is Establishment Clause
500
This Supreme Court case that established that, under the Fourteenth amendment, criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney are appointed one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright
500
A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power
What is Checks and Balances?
500
This President of the United States ended slavery
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18
What Twenty Sixth Amendment
500
This political organization in which sovereign states combine for certain purposes
What is a confederation
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