Units 3 and 4
What is executive privilege? How do President's use it?
The power of the president to refuse to testify to Congress and withhold national security issues from the country. President's can order newspapers to stop publishing articles or refuse to turn over sensitive information.
What is the role of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
The right to bear arms in listed in which Constitutional Amendment?
Second Amendment
What is the precedent set in Mapp v. Ohio?
The exclusionary rule that applied to the federal courts now applies to the states. Any evidence illegally seized cannot be used against you in state or federal courts.
What does the 13th Amendment state?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is federalism?
Government divided into state and federal systems
Writ of Certiorari is...
The request from the Supreme Court to receive the information from previous courts for review
(1) it must have a secular legislative purpose (that is not a sham); and
(2) a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion; and
(3) it cannot create an excessive government entanglement with religion (with a religious entity).
Lemon Test
the legal standard by which a police officer has the right to make an arrest, conduct a personal or property search, or obtain a warrant for arrest
Probable Cause
Led a raid on the armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia which was a factor in the start of the Civil War
John Brown
Temporary head of the Senate while the Vice President is away
President Pro Tempore
Supporting Supreme Court past decisions and sticking with conservative view of the Constitution
Judicial Activism
Freedom of Expression is included in which part of the First Amendment
Freedom of Speech
Riley v. California
Period when the North and South were trying to rebuild after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Right to know what you are being charged with
Habeas Corpus
Opinion of the winning side in a Supreme Court decision
Majority Opinion
Section of the First Amendment that allows you to practice your religion unless the practice breaks the law
Free Exercise Clause
Government cannot take your land away without just compensation and only for a public purpose
Eminent Domain
What was the precedent set in Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Blacks are not considered citizens and cannot use the court system
Group that advises the President
Cabinet
Power of the Supreme Court to declare laws, acts of Congress and Executive Orders unconstitutional
Judicial Review
Supreme Court decision that allows students to express themselves as part of the First Amendment as long as they do not disrupt the school day
Tinker v. Des Moines
Part of the 5th and 14th Amendments. Gives you the right to be told what you are accused of, right to an attorney, right to judge or jury trial, right to call witnesses in your favor, right to confront witnesses that accuse you, right to a judgement given by judge or judge and then sentencing.
Due Process
Series of debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Topic included states rights and slavery. Lincoln did so well he won the Senate seat in Illinois.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates