Unit 2: Interactions Amongst the Branches
This major figure in the Executive Branch is the leader of the Senate according to the Constitution.
Who is the Vice President
This document provides the basic framework for American democracy, famously declaring "All men are created equal."
What is The Declaration of Independence
This voting model sees an individual vote based on the party they identify with.
What is straight-ticket voting
This case saw students in an Iowa pubic school sue over being suspended for wearing armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker V. Des Moines School District
This party is considered socially conservative and economically neoliberal.
What is the Republican Party
This branch contains the federal bureaucracy.
What is the Executive Branch
This document had several weaknesses including not giving Congress the power to tax and requiring 9 of the 13 states to pass a law.
What is the Articles of Confederation.
The 19th amendment protects this groups right to vote.
What is women
This case saw the Supreme Court rule that racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional.
What is Shaw V. Reno
This document argues that the Constitution made the Federal government too powerful due to the Supremacy clause and the necessary and proper clause.
What is Brutus 1
This document lays out steps to a nonviolent movement for change, including collection of the facts, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail
This type of 3rd party forms from factions of one of the two major parties
What is a splinter party
This case saw Richard Nixon take on the New York Times over the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times Co. V. US
This document argues that factions in a democracy are inevitable and the only way to control them was by establishing a republic system of of government.
What is Federalist 10
This civil liberty was key to protecting women's right to abortion
What is due process/the right to privacy
This Supreme Court case attacked several key elements of BCRA, mainly limits on private campaign donations or soft money.
What is Citizens United V. FEC
This article of the Constitution contains the Supremacy clause where the Federal government trumps the authority of state governments.
What is Article 6
This Executive power was used by Nixon to get the Supreme Court to force the New York Times to not publish the Pentagon papers.
What is prior restraint
This case involves the concept of selective incorporation in which a state law violated the protections of the Bill of Rights
What is McDonald V. Chicago