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E Pluribus Unum
I'll see you in Court
100
The second female justice on the Supreme Court, often referred to by her initials.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
100
The most important influence on a person's political socialization.
What are parent(s)?
100
Federal law currently preempts California's laws legalizing the use of this narcotic.
What is marijuana?
100
The limitations this agreement between the thirteen newly independent states placed on the central government rendered it weak and ineffectual.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
Cooperative federalism (think FDR) has been likened to this particular kind of cake.
What is marble cake?
100
Engel v. Vitale this banned government-sponsored activity.
What is school prayer?
200
In 2018 , this Bronx native, often referred by her initials, became the youngest woman ever to win a seat in the House of Representatives.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
200
A middle-aged, Caucasian, evangelical Christian pastor from Tennessee is more likely to vote with this party.
What is the Republican Party?
200
By declaring itself one of these, California prohibits state officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
What is a sanctuary state?
200
Prompted by this insurrection in western Massachusetts, influential leaders from around the country called for a constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
200
The final Amendment in the Bill of Rights is also known as the states' rights amendment.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
200
The collection of 5th and 6th amendment rights required to be recited by law enforcement pending arrest.
What are Miranda rights?
300
If the number of women currently serving in Senate were a person, they could rent a car.
What is 25?
300
The typical margin of error in a scientific poll.
+/- 3%
300
A former mayor of San Francisco, she has been our senior senator since 1992.
Who is Dianne Feinstein?
300
A collection of 85 articles and essays written under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
What are the Federalist papers?
300
This unfunded mandate prohibits discrimination based on disability, requires existing public facilities to be made accessible and requires new facilities to comply with accessibility expectations.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
Wisconsin v. Yoder involved children from this traditionalist German-speaking religious sect.
Who are the Amish?
400
This section of the Civil Rights Act prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal funding, perhaps most notably, college athletics.
What is Title IX?
400
An opinion poll intended to sway voters using loaded or manipulative questions.
What is a push poll?
400
This former governor of California was elected our 40th president in 1980.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
400
The original Constitution assented to the the repugnant institution of slavery by the inclusion of the fugitive slave clause and this apportionment compromise.
What is the Three-Fifths compromise?
400
Some states, including California, have this power to remove elected officials before the end of their term of office.
What is recall?
400
This landmark case found a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy is protected by the Constitution.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
Men had to vote to ratify this important constitutional amendment, couched between Prohibition and its repeal.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
500
This carnivore, protected by the Endangered Species Act and reintroduced by the federal government to Idaho and Wyoming, has finally made its way back to some of its former territory in Northern California.
What is the wolf?
500
British colonial tax policies in the aftermath of this costly war was a decisive turning point in the road to the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War or Seven Years' War?
500
This was the first state to grant civil unions, giving the same legal rights and privileges to same-sex couples.
What is Vermont?
500
If you were offered a federal judgeship, you'd sue the Jefferson administration too, as James M. did in this landmark case.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
600
Submitted to the states for approval in 1972, this constitutional amendment failed to secure the requisite 3/4 of state votes.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
600
An individual’s coherent set of values and beliefs about the purpose and scope of government
What is political ideology?
600
The number of representatives California sends to the House.
What is 53?
600
Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence we are endowed with certain unalienable rights, including the Greek concept of eudaimonia, the pursuit of this.
What is happiness?
600
In Article VI we find this clause, which establishes the federal constitution takes precedence over state laws and constitutions.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
600
In Brown II, the Court tried to clarify its previous ruling in Brown v. Board, saying desegregation must take place "with all deliberate ______"
What is speed?
700
Women's suffrage began to be legalized starting in this region of the country.
What is the West?
700
These dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving, have lent the name for this kind of unscientific poll.
What is a straw poll?
700
She is San Francisco's voice in the House as well as the first (and thus far only) female Speaker of that body.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
700
This clause in the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
What is the Interstate Commerce clause?
700
This type of grant which provides federal funds to states for broad prescribed activities such as welfare, childcare, education, social services, preventative health and health services.
What is a block grant?
700
An individual right to own a firearm was incorporated to the states in this landmark ruling from 2010.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
800
In 2017 she became the first Asian-American woman and the first African-American person to represent California in the United States Senate.
Who is Kamala Harris?
800
A method of sampling that involves the division of a population into smaller groups known as strata.
What is stratified sampling?
800
The most populous in the United States, this California county's population is larger than that of 41 individual states.
What is Los Angeles County?
800
Powers prohibited to the federal government were tacked on to the Constitution in 1791 and are collectively referred to as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
800
The Supreme Court has found the Fourteenth Amendment requires parts of the Constitution apply to the states through this process.
What is incorporation?
800
This president tried to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers by taking the New York Times to court.
Who is Nixon?
900
A shadow of a shadow, once used in constitutional reasoning, notably in cases involving privacy and the Ninth Amendment.
What is a penumbra?
900
A phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others
What is the Bandwagon Effect?
900
California lies within the jurisdiction of this numbered circuit court.
What is the Ninth Circuit?
900
Some power, such as the distribution of welfare benefits, has been returned to the states through this process.
What is devolution?
900
We have greater freedom of speech and press in California, thanks to this California Supreme Court case.
What is Smith v. NUSD?
900
These students from Iowa won this landmark case giving political speech rights to American students everywhere.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?