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No cruel/ unusual punishment or excessive fines

What is the 8th Amendment?

200

Redistricting with a partisan motivation

What is Gerrymandering?

200

2nd Amendment applied to the states

What is McDonald v Chicago?

200

The style of government where representatives are chosen to pass legislation?

What is republicanism?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

Power of Senators to stall voting on a bill

400

Abolished slavery

What is the 13th Amendment?

400

The President's ability to reach a wide audience

What is the Bully Pulpit?

400

Students protesting Vietnam War

What is Tinker v Des Moines?

400

Core Value that the same legal standards apply to everyone

What is Rule of Law?

400

Style of revenue sharing preferred by state governments

What are block grants?

600

No quartering of troops in the homes of private citizens without permission

What is the 3rd Amendment?

600

Concurrent Powers

What is Marble Cake Federalism?

600

Questioned the consitutionality of the draft

What is Schenck v US?

600

Style of government where the majority of the people have the right to vote

What is Participatory Democracy?

600

Data collected on a candidate's likeability at the beginning of their campaign

What is a Benchmark Poll?

800

Abolished poll taxes

What is the 24th Amendment?

800

DAILY DOUBLE

When a member of Congress adds funding for a local project into a larger appropriations bill

800

6th Amendment applied to the states

What is Gideon v Wainwright?

800

Core Value that people can complete in the market with limited interference

What is Free Enterprise?

800

Document where the President explains his reasoning for approving a bill

What is a Signing Statement?

1000
Constitution cannot be interpreted in a way to deny other unlisted rights

What is the 9th Amendment?

1000

Exchanging favors to gain support of a bill

What is Logrolling?

1000

Supreme Court is allowed to adjudicate on matters of redistricting

What is Baker v Carr?

1000

The idea that the people exchange unlimited liberty for government protection

What is social contract?

1000

First President to be impeached

Who is Andrew Johnson?

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