American Democracy
What governing document was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789?
Articles of Confederation
Who breaks a tie in the Senate?
The vice-president
What case guarantees a lawyer for the defendant?
Gideon v. Wainwright
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the precedent set in Marbury v. Madison?
Judicial Review
What group reconciles bills from the House and the Senate?
Conference Committee
What is a de facto law and give an example.
In practice
"White Flight", School and Neighborhood segregation
In Federalist 78 what does Hamilton call the least dangerous branch
The judicial
What portion of the states does it take to ratify an amendment to the Constitution?
3/4
In the battle over Constitutional ratification, what group argued for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights?
Anti-Federalist
What is a pocket veto?
A pocket veto occurs when a bill fails to become law because the president does not sign the bill and cannot return the bill to Congress within a 10-day period because Congress is not in session
What clause of the 1 st Amendment was the basis for the Engel v Vitale ruling?
Establishment Clause
In Federalist 10, what is Madison concerned about?
Factions
What state was the compromise that led to a bicameral legislature named after?
Connecticut
How many amendments does the U.S. Constitution have?
27
What is an amicus curiae brief?
Literally, a “friend of the court” brief, filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
What precedent and what case did Brown versus Board overturn?
Separate but equal
Plessy v Ferguson
What document argued for three branches of government?
Federalist 51
What is the most recently established department of the US bureaucracy?
Department of Homeland Security
What do we call powers that are shared by both state and federal government?
Concurrent Powers
What court case set the precedent for Roe v. Wade?
Griswold v Connecticut
What do we call the rule outlawing the use of illegally obtained evidence in trial?
Exclusionary Rule
Who do many think wrote Brutus 1?
Robert Yates
What rule was established in Schenck v. U.S.?
Clear and Present Danger