Interactions Among Govt.
People & Politics
Important Documents
SCOTUS

Articles & Amendments
100

The system that allows for government branches to regulate each other.

What is Checks and Balances?

100

These are organized groups that seek to influence public policy.

What are interest groups?

100

This document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

This case established judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

100

This Amendment disallowed the government from obscuring freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

What is the 1st Amendment?

200

The legistive branch is a ___ system.

What is Bicameral?

200

This political ideology generally favors limited government and lower taxes.

What is conservatism?

200

The first constitution of the United States, later replaced by the U.S. Constitution.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

200

This case declared school segregation unconstitutional.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

This Article established the Legislative system. 

What is Article I?

300

Name a clause used by the government.

Necessary and Proper / Elastic Clause, Commerce Clause, Supremacy Clause

300

This type of primary allows only registered party members to vote.

What is a closed primary?

300

This series of essays supported the ratification of the Constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

300

This case ruled that students do not lose their free speech rights at school.

What is Tinker v. Des Moines?

300

This Amendment stated that there are more rights then listed.

What is the 9th Amendment 

400

Commonly referred to as 'the fourth branch of government.'

What is the Bureaucracy? 

400

This theory suggests that political power is distributed among many competing interest groups, so much so that nothing is able to get done.

What is hyper-pluralism?

400

This document added to the Constitution protects individual liberties.

What are the Bill of Rights?

400

This case ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment.

What is Citizens United v. FEC?

400

This Article outlined the amendment process for the constitution. 

What is Article V (5)

500

This process allows Congress to check the President by charging and potentially removing them from office.

What is impeachment?

500

The most common form of political participation in the U.S.

What is voting in elections?

500

This federalist paper focuses on the judiciary.

What is Federalist No. 78?

500

The clause that states that the courts should follow previous decisions. 

What is stare decisis?

500

The 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendment all deal with this topic.

What is suffrage?

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