A
America's first constitution
Articles of Confederation
A sum of money that the accused may be required to post as a guarantee that he or she will appear in court at the proper time.
Bail
Presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of heads of the executive departments and other officers.
Cabinet
A legal process in which aliens are legally required to leave the United States.
Deportation
This government branch is responsible for law enforcement
executive branch
A policy that requires most employers take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discrimination
affirmative action
When a presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological,geographic, racial, gender, or other characteristics.
Balance the ticket
The death penalty.
Capital Punishment
A court’s list of cases to be heard.
Docket
As a political value, the idea that all people are of
the same worth.
EQUALITY
a non citizen
alien
An adjective describing a legislative body composed of two chambers.
Bicameral
System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to oversee & control the actions of the others
Checks and Balances
Once a person has been tried for a crime, he or she cannot be tried again for the same crime.
Double Jeopardy
This group elects the POTUS
Electoral College
a blanket pardon for a group of law violators
amnesty
A proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration.
Bill
Term for the President as the main architect of foreign policy and spokesperson to the other countries.
Chief Diplomat
The government must act fairly and in accord with established rules in all that it does.
Due Process
The takings clause of the 5th Amendment provides this power to government
eminent domain
The authority of a court to review decisions of inferior courts.
TWO WORDS
Appellate Jurisdiction
The first 10 amendments to the USC
Bill of Rights
Term for the President as the ceremonial head of the United States, the symbol of all the people of the nation.
Chief of State
"Natural" segregation - Segregation even if no law requires it, e.g., housing patterns, churches.
de facto segregation
The prohibition amendment
eighteen
to find not guilty of a charge
acquit
Supported by two parties.
Bipartisan
A legal case involving a noncriminal matter such as a contract dispute or a claim of patent infringement.
Civil Case
Conscription, or compulsory military service.
Draft
A rule or regulation issued by the POTUS
that has the effect of law.
executive order
The head of the department of justice.
Attorney General
Refusal to buy or sell certain products or services.
Boycott
The guarantees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property from the arbitrary acts of government, including freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Civil Liberties
Segregation by law
de jure segregation
This is another name for the "necessary and proper clause".
elastic clause
The major law banning discrimination against the disabled, it requires employers to make all reasonable accommodations to disabled workers; it passed in 1990.
Americans with Disabilities Act
the phenomenon by which voters cast fewer
votes for offices listed toward the bottom of the ballot
ballot fatigue
A term used for those positive acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people, e..g., prohibitions of discrimination.
Civil Rights
a court calendar or list of cases for trial or people having cases pending.
docket
A law that inflicts punishment for an act
that was not illegal at the time it was committed
ex post facto law
The 18th and the 21st Amendment BOTH deal with what general topic?
alcohol
Supreme Court case which declared that "separate-but-equal" educational facilities are inherently unequal and therefore a violation of equal protection of the law guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Brown v. Board of Education
Procedure that may be used to limit or end floor debate in a legislative body. (can end a filibuster)
cloture
the removal of laws that keep two ethnic groups apart
desegregation
the legal process of returning someone to a jurisdiction where they are accused or convicted of a crime, often when they have fled to another state or country.
EXTRADITION
Literally, a “friend of the court” brief. A brief submitted to the court by a group not involved in the case; it presents further arguments for one side in the case.
amicus curiae brief
A document submitted to a court that presents one side’s argument in a case.
brief
Term for the President as leader of the nation’s armed forces.
Commander in Chief
A situation in which one major political party controls the presidency and the other controls one or more chambers of Congress
divided government
A judicial policy prohibiting the admission
at trial of illegally seized evidence
exclusionary rule
A ballot printed by the government that allows voting to be secret.
Australian ballot
A financial plan for the use of money, personnel, and property.
Budget
A clause in Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution that grants Congress the power to regulate interstate trade.
commerce clause
The ADA was passed in 1990 - what does the "D" stand for/represent?
Disabilities
This POTUS is associated with creating the US Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower