Court Cases
Court case that desegregated public schools in 1954
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Number of articles and amendments in the U.S. Constitution
What is 7 and 27?
Combined total number of the House and Senate
What is 535?
5 freedoms of the First Amendment
What are speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion?
Two types of presidential primaries
What are open and closed?
Court case that reinforced the right to counsel and the 6th Amendment
What is Giden vs Wainwright?
The essay that questioned the effectiveness of the U.S. Constitution before it was ratified.
What is Brutus #1?
Senate; cloture
Amendment that allows 18 year olds to vote
What is the 26th Amendment?
What is a Spoiler Role, Critic/ Innovator?
Court case that said interest groups and non profits could have unlimited campaign finance because of the 1st amendment and freedom of speech
What is Citizen United vs FEC?
Federalists #10 focused around what major issue and what major solution to that issue.
What is factions? And what is a republic?
term that means interpreting the Constitution the way it is written
What is judicial restraint?
The clause that is found in the 14th amendment that deals with treating all races and genders the same.
Equal Protection Clause
Age group that is most likely to participate in government. 20 somethings or 60 somethings. Why?
Older 60 somethings? Political efficacy- feeling of believing they make a difference and government decisions seem to affect them
Court case and clause that was involved in stopping prayer in public school.
The Federalist Paper that deals with a single executive as president.
15- answers will vary. State, Defense, Labor, Education, Transportation, Treasurey
Foundational Document that says "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere."
What is a Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
Name a linkage institution
media, political party, elections, interest groups
Gerrymandering case that said districts needed to have equal population. "one man, one vote"
What is Baker vs. Carr?
Reason or reasons the Federalist #78 focused on the highest court having life terms.
What is to insulate them from the other branches and to help entice the best into public service?
3 Constitutional Qualifications of the President and what article is it found in
What is 35 yrs old, 14 years live in the U..S. and be a natural born citizen and Article 2?
List 3 groups that have faced discrimination in the U.S. and 2 court cases or government actions that have tried to correct those wrongs.
Answers will vary- Suffrage amendments can be used- 15, 19, 26
Brown vs. Board of Education; 14th Amendment,
Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
Reason the United States has a two party system
history, tradition, consensus