Constitution
CR & CL
National Gov't
MISC.
Amendments and Supreme Court Cases
100
Guaranteed all people freedom of speech, religion and the freedom of press
What is The First Amendment?
100
A kind of speech is by its very utterance intended to inflict injury or incite an immediate breach of peace?
What is Fighting Words?
100
Making congressional districts to favor one party over another.
What is Gerrymandering?
100
Rules and Regulations created by an independent agency are considered these.
What is Administrative Law?
100
The Right to Bear Arns.
What is the 2nd amendment?
200
This person can Negotiate treaties, veto legislation, nominate cabinet members, and nominate ambassadors.
Who is the President?
200
These laws forced racial segregation in the southern states.
What are Jim Crow laws or Black Codes?
200
This theory that a judge ought to freely strike down laws that are inconsistent with their understanding of the US Constitution.
What is judicial activism?
200
A poll that is unscientific to gauge public opinion
What is a straw poll?
200
The case that ruled segregation in schools is unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
300
Allows the Supreme Court to declare actions taken by the executive and legislative branches unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
300
The First 10 Amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This committee plays a major role in the House in tax policy.
What is Ways and Means?
300
This type of poll is done outside of an election polling center.
What is an exit poll?
300
Using the Due Process Clause, this Amendment made the Bill of Rights applicable to states.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
This amendment expanded America's personal liberty, guaranteed citizenship and limited some forms of discrimination?
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
In Barron v. Baltimore, the Supreme Court held that the Bill of Rights limits federal action but not this.
What is state action?
400
NASA and the EPA are examples of these types of agencies.
What is an Independent Agency?
400
This term means two legislative chambers that have different structures and rules.
What is bicameralism?
400
These two Amendments first made Prohibition, then repealed it 13 years later.
What is the 18th and the 21st Amendments?
500
The theory that the government holds its authority by the consent of the people is known as.
What is Popular sovereignty
500
Guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
Most of the actual legislation in Congress takes place here
What is a standing committee?
500
The level of government the Bill of Rights originally applied to.
What is the Federal Government?
500
This amendment ended slavery in the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
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