Pertaining to the science of vital and social statistics of populations.
What is demographic?
100
A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
What is prosperity?
100
Limits on branches of government giving each the right to amend some acts of the other.
What are checks and balances?
100
A formal statement of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States, incorporated in the Constitution as the first 10 Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
A fabricated or conveniently weak or innocuous person, object, matter, etc., used as a seeming adversary or argument.
What is straw man?
200
Ethnic traits, background or association.
What is ethnicity?
200
An alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
What is an amendment?
200
Presentation of charges against an official and trial over them in the legislature.
What is impeachment?
200
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
What is the First Amendment?
200
A scamp; rascal.
What is scalawag?
300
Belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnicity.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
An act of losing the right to something, as for commission of a crime or misdeed, neglect of duty, or violation of a contract.
What is forfeiture?
300
Doctrine stating the three branches of government shouldn't infringe on each other's powers.
What is separation of powers?
300
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
A bribe or other illicit payment, especially to or from a politician; graft.
What is boodle?
400
Difference between women and men in social, political, intellectual and economic attainment.
What is gender gap?
400
A formal order under seal, issued in the name of a government, enjoining the other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
What is writ?
400
Power of a court to review and rule on the constitutionality of the laws.
What is judicial review?
400
4th president of the U.S. 1809; delegate at Constitutional Convention; introduced Bill of Rights the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles.
Who is James Madison?
400
The exchange of support or favors, especially by legislators for mutual political gain as by voting for each other's bills.
What is log rolling?
500
Social structure which depends on occupation, education, income, wealth, and place of residence.
What is socioeconomic status?
500
A writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
500
Supreme Court decision giving it to power void acts of Congress that conflict with the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
The date on which the Bill of Rights came into effect through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States.
What is December 15, 1791?
500
A person who is unable to make up his or her mind on an issue, especially in politics; a person who is neutral on a controversial issue.