1st Amendment
This clause of the first amendment prevents the government from endorsing any religion.
What is the establishment clause?
This SCOTUS case incorporated the 2nd Amendment to the states.
What is McDonald v City of Chicago?
This SCOTUS case established that suspects must be made aware of their rights, including protection against self-incrimination.
What is Miranda v Arizona (1966)?
This type of bill must begin in the House of Representatives, according to the Constitution.
What is revenue (or spending or appropriations)?
Children are most likely to adopt the party identification of _______________.
Who are their parents?
This SCOTUS case established that the state cannot compel parents to send their children to school beyond 8th grade if they have genuine religious objections.
What is Wisconsin v Yoder?
Regarding the second amendment, there are two interpretations. One, the right of all citizens to own a weapon. The second, this.
This SCOTUS case incorporated the right to legal counsel to the states.
What is Gideon v Wainwright?
This type of committee is temporary and forms when the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill.
What is conference committee?
This amendment gave American citizens 18 years old and over the right to vote.
What is the 26th?
The Supreme Court has ruled that speech can be limited if it reaches certain criteria according to this "test".
What is the clear and present danger test?
In order to issue an arrest, law enforcement needs this which comes from evidence gathered from a warrant.
What is probable cause?
The 6th amendment says you have the right to be informed of the charge being brought against you when arrested, known as this.
What is heabeas corpus?
This theory of democracy argues that many competing factions create a balance of power and fair representation.
What is pluralism?
This SCOTUS case held that campaign spending by political action committees is a form of free speech and limitations are therefore unconstitutional.
What is Citizens United vs FEC?
Freedom of the Press was tested in this SCOTUS case, in which the government tried to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times v United States (1971)?
This law, passed after 9/11, tested the Bill of Rights in a number of ways, including how the government could obtain evidence (I will accept two answers).
What is the USA Patriot Act or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act?
The 7th amendment says this.
What is you have the right to a jury in civil cases of a certain dollar amount?
Social Security and interest on federal debt are an example of this type of budgetary spending.
What is mandatory?
People who benefit from the work of interest groups without contributing directly to their efforts are known as this.
What are free riders?
The ability for the government, in some cases, to prevent the publication of certain sensitive material is known as this.
What is prior restraint?
This prevents law enforcement from collecting evidence unrelated to the warrant they were issued.
What is the exclusionary rule?
This principle of the 5th amendment says that the judicial process must be applied to everyone equally.
What is due process?
This clause in the Constitution states that federal law supersedes state law.
What is the supremacy clause?
The social bases of the political parties' support shifting is known as this.
What is realignment?
This SCOTUS case held that the government may not compel students to participate in a nondenominational prayer.
What is Engel v Vitale?
When incorporating the 2nd amendment to the states, the SCOTUS considered this 2008 case as precedent.
What is DC v Heller?
The Supreme Court has ruled against the death penalty as punishment for certain people. These are two of them.
What are the mentally ill, mentally disabled, and people under 18?
Money given to states for special education programs are an example of this type of federal grant.
What is categorical?
Opinions sent to the SCOTUS by interested groups/individuals that are not directly related to the case being decided are known as this.
What are amicus curiae briefs?