Potpourri
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Supreme Court
Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
100
John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life liberty and property?
100
This is the type of segregation seen in the North, which is not caused by laws; rather it is the result of residential segregation, preferred living patterns, and informal social sources.
What is de facto segregation?
100

The Supreme Court decision in Bakke v the University of California Board of Regents dealt with what major issues? (Give one only)

What is affirmative action and/or reverse discrimination?

100
This plan for national government, written by James Madison, created an executive and legislative branch that would be dominated by larger populated states.
What is the Virginia Plan
100
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied the states.
What are reserved powers?
200
Allowing the states and the federal government to exercise power separately in areas of legitimate concern to them characterize this form of federalism.
What is Dual Federalism?
200

What part of American government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s, as well as leading the civil rights charge  for women and African Americans?

What are the federal courts?

200
The custom of allowing a senator from the president's own party have input on the selection of Federal district court judges.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
200
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?
200
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?
300

What important 4th amendment process was established in the Supreme Court case of Weeks v US (1914), and incorporated to the states by the case Mapp v. Ohio (1961).

What is the exclusionary rule?

300
This amendment and what clause states that states Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.
What is the 1st amendment establishment clause?
300
In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file this kind brief urging the court to decide the case in their favor.
What is an Amicus Curaie brief?
300
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
400

A conservative movement designed to return more power and control of money to the states in an effort to roll back the New Deal. The term was coined during the Nixon presidency.

What is New Federalism aka devolution?

400
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 1964 Civil Rights Act
400

A Document sent by the SCOTUS to a lower court demanding that a case and all records pertaining to that case should be sent to the SCOTUS, who will make a decision in the case rather than the lower court.

What is a writ of certiorari?

400
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?
400
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.
500

The name used by Anti-Federalists as a author pseudonym for a series of essays written to argue against the ratification of the new Constitution. 

What was Brutus?

500

Gave equal rights to people of all colors and ethnicities in regards to where they want to live.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

500
Rights not clearly defined but existing in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights. An example being the right to privacy.
What are penumbra rights
500
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
500
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?
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