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John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
Life, Liberty, Property.
This Court case gave students the right to speak silently and "band together" against the vietnam war.
What is Tinker v Des moines
This literally translates to "stand by things decided"
This plan for national government, written by James Madison, created an executive and legislative branch that would be dominated by larger populated states.
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied the states.
What are Reserved powers?
Powers that are shared between the Federal Government and the State government.
What are Concurrent powers
Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the Supreme court?
What is Fed 78?
This compromise satisfied southern fears that the north would fund the national government with a tax on exports?
What is the slave trade and commerce compromise?
What branch of government was viewed by the framers of the Constitution as the center of policy making in the United States?
what is Congress?
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the Exclusionary rule?
This amendment and what clause states that states Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.
What is the first amendment and the establisment clause?
The supreme court decision in Bakke v California Board of Regents dealt with?
Affirmative Action
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This document outlines uses the theories of Social contract and natural rights to justify its grievances towards the government.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin and the withholding federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race?
What is the civil rights act of 1964?
This court case is responsible for giving the court the power of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral College?
This concerns states being required to recognize the official documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The name used by Alexander Hamilton as a pseudonym for the Federalist Papers essays, derived from the name of a famous Roman consul.
What is Publius?
This court Case created a Tangy test to ensure that government actions do not unduly favor or disfavor religion, and that there is a clear separation between church and state, using 3 criteria to determine the level of government involvement.
What is Lemon v Kurtzman?
this is a process where the U.S. Supreme Court gradually applies the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
What is Selective Incorporation?
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
The Constitution is silent regarding the ability of the national government to establish a draft. However this power is linked to the Article I, section 8 power for congress to "raise an army". This makes the draft what kind of power?
What is an implied power?