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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

John Marshall decided two crucial SCOTUS cases you are expected to know. This case established judicial review.

What is Marbury v Madison?

100

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans both had their opponents. This third plan was the solution we still have in effect today to ensure the legislature respects the will of communities and states as a whole.

What is the Great Compromise or the Connecticut 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

Which branch of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of the incarcerated, minorities, and socially marginalized during the 1960s?

What is the Supreme Court?

200

The committee that reviews appointees and offers a recommendation to the Senate at large who vote to confirm or deny such appointees.

What is Senate Judiciary Committee?

200

This compromise satisfied Northern fears that the South would take unfair advantage of enslaved people's voting power?

What is the 3/5ths compromise and/or the 1809 slave trade 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

The Supreme Court case of Gideon v Wainwright established this important 6th amendment protection for all Americans regardless of state.

What is the right to a lawyer / council / a legal representative?

300

This amendment and what clause states that states Congress shall make no law supporting or sponsoring a 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 enfranchised women.

What is the 19th amendment?

400

The two kinds of grants from the Federal Government to the states. One is preferable because it has less limitations on how it can be spent.

What are Block & Categorial Grants.

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?

NOTE: the Voting Rights Act of 1965 forced historically racist communities to get approval from the federal government before changing rules. A 2013 SCOTUS case repealed important powers of this law.

400
Rare court cases, "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party", where only the Supreme Court can hear the case.
What is Supreme Court Original Jurisdiction?
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

Which Federalist paper written by James Madison focused on the principle of Separate Powers?

What is Federalist 58?

500

This is the key difference between a Civil Liberty and a Civil Right. Give an example.

What is historically being barred from accessing said liberty/right?

Gay and interracial Marriage are civil rights.

Access to firearms are a civil liberty.

500

This Federalist paper argues that because SCOTUS has "neither the sword or the purse", making it the least dangerous branch of the Federal government.

What is Fed 78?

500

The two steps to creating an amendment.

What are getting 2/3s vote to ratify in Congress and 3/4s of state legislature OR 2/3s of state legislatures and 3/4s of Congress?

500

The Constitution does not explicitly say the US gov can implement a draft. However this power is linked to the Article I, section 8 power for congress to "raise an army" making it what kind of power?

What is an informal, or implied power?

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