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400

The Schoolhouse Rock version of the Constitution's Preamble omits this phrase.

What is "of the United States"?

400

The First Amendment enumerates this many freedoms.

What is five? (free exercise, speech, press, assembly, petition)

400

Section 1983 authorizes suits against this type of defendant.

What is a person acting under color of state law?

400

The Supreme Court has convened in the Supreme Court building since this year.

What is 1935?

400

Probably the most famous opinion of the Court, this decision settles the principle of judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

800

Article I provides that "[n]o Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to" this age.

What is thirty years?

800

The Third Amendment permits Congress to provide for the quartering of troops under these circumstances.

What is "in time of war"?

800

The three elements of standing are these.

What are injury, causation, and redressability?

800

This man was the first Chief Justice.

Who is John Jay?

800

This precedent that defines the relationship between courts and administrative agencies is widely expected to be overturned this term.

What is Chevron v. NRDC?

1200

Article II requires the President to take an oath to do these three things to the Constitution of the United States.

What is "preserve, protect, and defend"?

1200

In Ginyard, the criminal defendants invoked this clause of the Fifth Amendment.

What is the Double Jeopardy Clause?

1200

The Eleventh Amendment protects States from suit by these.

What are Citizens of another State or of any Foreign State?

1200

In 1789, there were this many justices on the Supreme Court.

What is six?

1200

In his First Inaugural Address, President Lincoln announced his decision not to follow the legal reasoning of this famous decision.

What is Scott v. Sandford?

1600

Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 divides the Supreme Court's jurisdiction into these two categories.

What is original and appellate?

1600

The Seventh Amendment secures the right to a jury in suits at common law, but not suits in this.

What is equity?

1600

This is an evidentiary "remedy" for violations of the Fourth Amendment.

What is the exclusionary rule?

1600

This man, named after two great Supreme Court justices, lived up to his name by becoming a justice, too.

Who is John Marshall Harlan II?

1600

One of the most important constitutional decisions made by the Supreme Court while John Marshall was Chief Justice was not a decision in an individual case: it was the decision to issue joint opinions expressing the Court's reasoning. Before, opinions were issued in this way. (Looking for a Latin phrase)

What is seriatum?

2000

The Supremacy Clause appears in this article of the Constitution.

What is VI?

2000

The Tenth Amendment reserves this "to the States respectively, or to the people."

What is "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States"?

2000

Courts of appeals apply a "de novo" standard of review to these.

What are questions of law?

2000

These are the names of the current justices on the Court.

Who are Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson?

2000

This is the name of the first decision handed down by the Supreme Court.

What is West v. Barnes (1791)?

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