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This amendment and clause states that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.
What is the 1st Amendment's Establishment Clause?
This is the difference between redistricting and reapportionment.
What is redistridicting is redrawing district boundaries of the existing number of congressional districts while reapportionment is changing the number of congressional districts a state has based on the population changes in the state reflected in the census.
This landmark SCOTUS case created the "clear and present danger test" to analyze free speech cases.
What is Schenk v United States?
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?
These are powers not specifically delegated to the national government or denied to the states.
What are reserved powers? (10th Amendment)
This landmark SCOTUS case affirmed Congressional power to establish a bank under the Necessary and Proper Clause, which grants Congress the authority to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out its enumerated powers.
What is McCulloch v Maryland (1819)?
This is when the media report more on who is ahead instead of reporting on the candidates' positions on specific issues.
What is horserace journalism?
This landmark SCOTUS case held a national ban on guns in a school zone violated the commerce clause.
What is United States v Lopez?
He was the master builder of the constitution and believed the federal government should control trade and protect people's rights.
Who is James Madison?
What branch of government was viewed by the framers of the Constitution as the center of policy making in the United States?
What is the legislative branch, or US Congress?
Roger Taney, a SCOTUS justice during the 19th century, emphasized these powers in his decisions, pointing specifically to the 10th Amendment.
What are states' rights?
This is the difference between the results of a random poll samples at the same time.
What is a sampling error?
In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file this kind of brief urging the court to decide the case in their favor.
What is an Amicus Curaie brief?
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This person can vote to break a tie in the Senate.
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
This was the argument presented under the psuedonym Brutus in a series of essays published in 1787.
What was the AntiFederalist perspective on the Constitution which argued that a free republic cannot exist in a territory as large as the United States, and that true democracy comes directly from people, not through representatives.
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?
This entity came out of a concern that states would not be able to select a competent choice to serve as the chief executive of the United States.
What is the electoral college?
The US Constitution declares that states are required to recognize the official documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause? (Article IV)
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 Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This is the independent regulatory agency created to administer and enforce financing campaigns for the US House of Reps, the US Senate, the US Presidency and Vice Presidency.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
Rights not clearly defined but existing in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights. An example being the right to privacy.
What are penumbra rights?
Each of the three branches of government exercises some control over the others, sharing power among and between the branches.
What is a system of check and balances?
The Constitution is silent regarding the ability of the national government to establish a military draft. However this power is linked to the Article I, section 8 power for congress to "raise an army". This makes the draft - and selective service registration - what kind of government power?
What is an implied power?