This established freedom of speech, religion, and press, and allowed the right to peaceably assemble.
What is the 1'st amendment?
100
This is a sytstem of government in which power is constitutionally divided between a national government and its component members.
What is federalism?
100
This is a close alliance between an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group.
What is an iron triangle?
200
This is a judge who holds that courts should make as well as interpret law.
What is a judicial activist?
200
This established national supremacy.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
200
This granted citizenship to the slaves, introduced the concept of due process, and required each state to provide equal protection to all its people.
What is the 14'th amendment?
200
This is a rule issued by the federal government that must be followed by the states.
What is a mandate?
200
This is a false written statement.
What is libel?
300
This is the principle that members of the executive branch of government can't legally be forced to disclose their confidential communications.
What is executive privilege?
300
This case ended segregation in schools and enforced the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
This prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
What is the 15'th amendment?
300
These are powers retained by the states.
What are reserved powers?
300
This is mutual aid between politicians to achieve goals in each one's interests.
What is logrolling?
400
A two-house legislature
What is bicameralism?
400
This case set precedent for exclusionary rule-protection to citizens in state courts where illegally obtained materials couldn't be presented in court.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
400
This amendment states that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States.
What is the tenth amendment?
400
This is the transferring of powers from the federal government to the states.
What is devolution?
400
This is nonverbal communication of a political idea.
What is symbolic speech?
500
This is constitutionally distributed power where the powers overlap so that no branch of government may dominate the other.
What are checks and balances?
500
This case enforced the 9'th amendment (right to privacy) over abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
This allowed citizens in Washington D.C. to vote.
What is the 23'rd amendment?
500
These are powers held by both the federal and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
500
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