The Constitution
What is Article I of the Constitution?
A Nixon-era law that sets restrictions on how and when Presidents can deploy troops overseas.
What is the 1975 War Powers Act?
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
A document filed by an interest group and submitted to the Supreme Court in an attempt to change the Court's decision.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
The agency, created in 1970, that regulates air and water pollution.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA?)
The Amendment that set the nationwide voting age at 18.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
The number of U.S. states that employ a "winner-take-all" system for distributing electoral votes.
What is 48?
The Supreme Court case which solidified Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
The Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A now-defunct system by which high-ranking government officials would place political allies in federal jobs.
What is the patronage system?
The Supreme Court case that incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to counsel on a state level.
What is Obergefell v. Hodges?
The number of cabinet-level advisors to the President.
What is fifteen? Burger King foot lettuce
The type of committee responsible for resolving differences in bills passed by the House and the Senate.
What are conference committees?
The 1869 piece of legislature that set the number of Supreme Court justices at nine.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1869?
The federal department which administers food-stamp programs.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture?
The Article of the Constitution that describes procedures for amending the Constitution.
What is Article V?
The first President to be successfully impeached by the Senate.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A piece of legislature that calls for the arrest and imprisonment of an individual without a trial.
What is a bill of attainder?
The Supreme Court that decided Lemon v. Kurtzman, United States v. Nixon, and Roe v. Wade.
What is the Burger Court?
The most recently created cabinet-level government department.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The Amendment that abolished poll taxes.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
The ability of the President to withhold valuable information from prosecutors during criminal proceedings.
The formal process used in the Senate to end a filibuster.
What is a vote of cloture?
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
The government agency that operates the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
What is the United States Department of Justice?