Amendments
The amendment that allowed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Having three branches of government, each doing their own jobs.
What is separation of powers?
The most accurate measure of public opinion.
What are public opinion polls?
The result of this case was the idea of judicial review.
What is Marbury V Madison?
The number of branches of the federal government.
What is 3?
The amendment that protects the rights of people who have been accused of a crime (right to remain silent, protection from double jeopardy, etc)
What is the 5th amendment?
People electing representative to vote on laws and policies rather than voting themselves.
What is republicanism?
The age you have to be to vote.
What is 18?
The result of this court case led to getting rid of prayer in public schools.
The leader of the executive branch.
What is the president?
The amendment that allowed residents of Washington D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
What is the 23rd amendment?
The Bill of Rights is the most prominent example of this principle.
What is individual rights?
"Spoiling" an election, serving as critics and innovators, and forcing major parties to take a stand.
What are the roles of third parties in U.S. politics?
This court case stated that administrators have the right to search students as long as there is reasonable suspicion.
What is New Jersey V T.L.O.?
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
The amendment that banned the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Popular sovereignty says that government must come from this.
The form of government with the most political participation.
What is a direct democracy?
When a judge tries to change things with their rulings.
What is judicial activism?
The branch(es) that is/are being checked when the Supreme Court uses judicial review.
What are the legislative and executive branches?
The Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What is federalism?
The chronological order of the documents that set up the United States government.
This court case overturned Plessy V Ferguson, and stated that separate facilities were inherently unequal.
What is Brown V The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
The reason that the federal government was set up with so many weaknesses and checks on their power.
What is the former colonists were afraid of giving the government too much power and it becoming tyrannical.