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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

The supreme court decision in Shaw v Reno dealt with which clause?

What is the equal protection clause?

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
Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the supreme court?
200

The first group who questions and votes on a federal justice BEFORE it goes to the Senate floor.

What is the Judicial Committee?

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
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
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

This is the process of using a precedent case to make a decision. 

What is an stare decisis brief?

300

He is known as the Father of the Constitution due to his meticulous notes about the Constitutional Convention. 

Who is James Madison?

300
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
400

These are the three main principles that were part of the Declaration of Independence. 

What are natural rights, right to revolt, and social contract? 

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

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

This is how the Senators were originally elected until the 17th amendment was ratified. 

What is by each state legislatures?

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 Alexander Hamilton as a pseudonym for the Federalist Papers essays, derived from the name of a famous Roman consul.
What is Publius?
500

This was who Martin Luther King Jr was responding to in his letter from Birmingham Jail. 

Who are a group of white ministers (pastors)?

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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