Stressed using reason and the growth of science to solve social and political problems.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Dividing government into different departments or branches.
What is Separation of Powers
100
The branch that interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
100
The freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment.
What is speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly?
200
The people hold ultimate power.
What is popular sovereignty or consent of the governed?
200
the representative, law-making body from Great Britain.
What is Parliament.
200
The Supreme Court declaring parts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal is an example of this important constitutional principle.
What is Checks and Balances?
200
Includes people like John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, Eric Holder, and Susan Powers?
What is the Executive Branch?
200
This case limited the 4th amendment for students.
What is T.L.O. v. New Jersey?
300
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people." refers to which type of government?
What is a Republic?
300
idea that people should set aside their own personal interests to work for the common good.
What is civil virtue?
300
The 17th Amendment is an expansion of this important constitutional principle.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
The branch is referred to as "the people's branch".
What is the Legislative Branch.
300
The 9th Amendment's protection of privacy was used as the rationale to declare laws that prohibited abortion unconstitutional in this case.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
The liberal party of the U.S., has roots from Thomas Jefferson's original party and the Progressives.
What is the Democrats?
400
Idea that you give up some of your personal freedom when you enter into society in order to gain protection.
What is the social contract?
400
The danger of a government by the people that the Constitution tries to avoid by separation of powers and checks and balances.
What is tyranny of the majority.
400
The branch that can appoint judges, make treaties, select ambassadors, and is in charge of the military.
What is the Executive Branch?
400
The time period when amendments passed in the late 19th and early 20th century that attempted to make the government more responsive to direct democracy were known as this.
What is the Progressive Era.
500
The idea that is exemplified in cases like U.S. v. Nixon.
What is Rule of Law.
500
Document that included important ideas like Rule of Law and Due Process.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The Affordable Care Act, which is a federal law mandating that all citizens have health insurance, but allows states flexibility for how to provide coverage, is an example of this important constitutional principle.
What is Federalism?
500
The branch that the Framers believed was most important and most powerful.
What is the Legislative Branch?
500
Justice Hugo Black argued that the 14th Amendment incorporated the Bill of Rights so that states had to follow the 6th Amendment's right to legal representation in this case.