Randomness
The first 10 Amendments are collectively called this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution gives this entity the power to make laws.
What is Congress/the Legislative branch?
According to the 10th Amendment, the powers not specifically delegated to or prohibited by the United States by the Constitution, are reserved to these two entities. (Must name both)
What are the States and the People?
Words in the Preamble to the Constitution noted that We the People wanted to form this, which didn't mean "without fault", as commonly understood in modern language, but it meant increasingly whole, complete, and sound.
What is "a more perfect union"?
This is the slogan on a front door "welcome" mat that Mrs. Gerth wants to buy.
What is "Come back with a warrant??
According to Article 6, the Constitution is this.
What is the Supreme Law of the Land?
The Korematsu v. United States decision established interment camps for Japanese Americans "for their protection" during this war.
What is World War 2?
Article 1 Section 1 says that "all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States". The ones granting the legislative powers are this, according to the Preamble.
Who are We the People?
Court case that established the unrestricted legality of abortion in all states from conception to birth.
What is Roe Versus Wade?
Since 1966, before police can arrest or interrogate a suspect, they must do this first.
What is read their Miranda Rights out loud?
Under this failed original US government document, states were constantly trying to put up barriers to trade from other states, necessitating the Constitution being written to include the Commerce Clause.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The two clauses in the 2nd Amendment make it clear that the right to keep and bear arms applies to both of these two entities.
What are a militia and the people? "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
A "weighty" judicial test in which judges weigh individual rights against competing public or government interests (often used by judges to write new laws instead of simply interpreting laws) is called this.
What are balancing tests?
Something we've talked a lot about this year: a decision in an earlier case that creates a controlling rule for deciding a later case is called this. Cheering for the unconstitutional acts to stand because we like them is dangerous to our rights, because of it.
What is precedence?
The two countries that own the majority of the US debt load (currently is above 30.3 trillion dollars).
What are China and Japan?
The entity was given the power to call an Constitutional Convention in 1787 and also within Article 5.
What are the states? (or the state legislatures)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" is known as this clause.
What is the Establishment Clause?
The 5th Amendment notes that a person cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property without this.
What is due process of law?
This person (who died with lots of debt to pass on to his family) famously said: "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Schools will often say that a homeschooling student or parent needs to keep a copy of their letter of excuse from attendance letter with them when they are out in public during a school day, in case they are stopped and questioned; however, the recommendation violates this Constitutional amendment.
What is the 4th Amendment?
These documents between countries are not considered valid and in effect in any country until each of the party countries have signed it.
What is an international treaty?
This case decided that slaves and dependents of slaves could never become US citizens. It was repudiated by the 14th Amendment after the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott? (Or Dred Scott versus Sanford)
There are two exceptions to when a government official can search you or your private space without a warrant; one is called “exigent circumstances” (an emergency that can be proven later to have been critical). The other is this circumstance.
What is giving your consent?
Latin phrase meaning when a President enacts an Executive Order that goes “beyond their Constitutional power” or authority. Most of the time it is sadly ignored by the Supreme Court, the Legislature, AND the people.
What is an Ultra Vires act?
The power of the state to take away property from an owner (with fair market price paid) for genuine public use/need is called this.
What is eminent domain?