Required Cases
This case established the "one man, one vote" doctrine
What is Baker v. Carr?
This type of law punishes a person without a trial. Article I of the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from passing any of these.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
Legislation that directs specific funds to projects within districts or states.
What is pork barrel spending?
A presidential document that reveals the president's opinion and interpretation of a law.
What is a signing statement?
The president's custom of submitting a list of names of judicial appointees to senators from the state in which the judges are to work.
What is senatorial courtesy?
This case set a precedent for prior restraint, stating the Supreme Court cannot exercise prior restraint unless it creates an immediate and inevitable danger to national security.
What is New York Times v. US?
This proposal created a bicameral legislature, with a one house having an equal amount of votes and the other having proportional representation.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
An agreement between two or more lawmakers to support each other's bills.
What is logrolling?
President's strategy of appealing to the population on an issue in order to pressure Congress to pass his preferred policies.
What is going public?
A situation in which the court reaches a majority decision, however, there is no majority agreement on the reasoning behind the decision.
What is a plurality opinion?
This case established the "Clear and Present Danger" test.
What is Schenck v. US?
Constitutional requirement stating that each state must accept all public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. (Example: a marriage in one state must be recognized by all states)
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
What is malapportionment?
Establishes two-term limits for a president.
Amendment XXII
The Senate's authority to approve a president's appointees/treaties.
What is Advise and Consent?
This case incorporated Amendment II to the states.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
This man believed the government should have separation of powers, likely influencing James Madison's Federalist No. 51.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
A petition in the House to pry a bill from a committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
What is a discharge petition?
A law passed in 1973 listing the conditions under which the president can commit troops without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
When the Supreme Court lets an original decision stand.
What is stare decisis?
This case established that Amendment I prohibits limits on corporate funding of independent broadcasts in candidate elections.
What is Citizen United v. Federal Election Commission?
The idea that politics is mainly a competition among groups, all pushing to have their own policies passed.
What is the pluralist theory?
The process by which a majority of a district is from a minority group.
What is a majority-minority district?
The president's use of prestige and visibility to guide or enthuse the American public.
What is the bully pulpit?
A Justice Department officer who argues the government's cases before the Supreme Court.
Who is the Solicitor General?