What is Writing a bill, introducing it to the legislature
100
What Case was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board Of Education
100
Name one right in the 4th Amendment that protects you from unreasonable arrests
What is Unreasonable search & seizure
100
The job of the Legislative Branch
What is make laws
100
The form of government where power is shared between national, state, and local governments
what is federal system
200
After the bill is read, what happens
What is Bill goes to committee to be debated
200
What Case is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States addressing the constitutionality of a search of a public high school student for contraband after she was caught smoking.
What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.
200
Name 3 of the rights granted by the 1st Amendment
What is Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly
200
The job of the Judicial Branch
What is interpret laws
200
What term expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality
What is Popular Sovereignty
300
If the bill finally passes one house, what happens to the bill?
What is Bill goes to the other house to be passed or amended.
300
what case was an 1896 decision by the US Supreme Court that confirmed the principle of "Separate but Equal" and minority segregation
What is Plessy v Ferguson
300
Amendment that gives broad powers to the states,Powers not granted to the federal government belong to the states or the people
What is 10th Amendment
300
The term used to describe the two "houses" of Congress, the House and Senate
What is Bicameral legislature
300
A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units
What is Federalism
400
What are the two actions the executive branch can take on a passed law?
What is Sign the bill or veto it.
400
What Case was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution
What is Marbury V. Madison
400
what amendment grants the right to a jury trial
What is 7th amendment
400
the term used to describe the process when the Judicial Branch rules on whether a law is constitutional or not
What is Judicial Review
400
A small group of people having control of a country, organization or a state governed by such a group.
What is Oligarchy
500
What is the majority needed for the legislature to override an executive veto?
What is 2/3 majority of both houses
500
What Case was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.