Unit 1: The Constitution
The Federalists favored ratifying this document, empowering the national government and securing the nation after the collapse of the Articles of Confederation?
Among the powers given to this branch of government are hearing cases of treason and all other cases of federal law.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The President, if he doesn't agree with a law passed by Congress, can use this to strike down the law.
This ideological group tend to believe the government should play a limited role in regulating the economy, but should regulate moral issues like abortion.
Who are Conservatives?
This clause of the 14th Amendment has forced the government to strike down things like school segregation and other forms of discrimination.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The Anti-Federalist feared the Constitution would empower this level of government too much, establishing tyranny over the states. They demanded, then, a Bill of Rights to protect the people from it.
What is the federal/national government?
What are...
Commander-In-Chief
State of the Union
Signing Bills
Veto
Diplomat-In-Chief
Among others...
When the President appoints someone to the Judicial Branch, this part of the Legislative Branch holds hearings to confirm or reject the nominee.
What is the Senate?
This institution provides for the election of the president by allowing states to have influence, even if they are smaller states.
What is the Electoral College?
The Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright upheld this amendment's protection of the right to an attorney, and it incorporated this amendment to the states.
In the Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison (1803), Chief Justice Marshall wrote, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." This statement, and the case, solidified this power of the Supreme Court to declare government actions unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This part of the Legislative Branch removes the president (or acquits him/her) after he/she has been impeached.
What is the Senate?
The President can propose laws to this branch, but they don't necessarily have to pass them.
According to this chart, rates of concern over this issue is the only one Democrats and Republicans agree upon.
What is drug addiction?
This Supreme Court Case ruled affirmative action constitutional, as long as race was only one of many factors used in the process. It was a continuation of the government's effort to carry out policies in line with the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.
What is University of California v. Bakke?
In Federalist 51, James Madison argued that the Constitution would allow these to be represented, groups that would otherwise conflict and fight among one another.
What are factions?
This branch has the power to impeach justices when they neglect their duties in the federal courts.
What is Congress/the Legislative Branch?
Congress can override the president's veto with a vote of this majority in both houses.
What is 2/3?
According to the chart, turnout is usually higher in these types of elections.
What are presidential elections?
These are the five freedoms protected in the first amendment.
What are speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition?
This part of the federal government was the only segment elected directly by the people, making it the most representative institution and fulfilling Madison's prescription for factional representation.
What is the House of Representatives?
What is the State of the Union?
The system of checks and balances was designed to prevent this, a potential situation that Madison and other founders feared greatly, given their history with Great Britain.
What is one branch becoming too powerful?
The cartoon suggests that this form of media is replacing the traditional methods of communication between the press and the government.
What is social media?
These are the protections guaranteed by the fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments. Taken together, they have suggested a right to privacy and have protected many rights of people accused of crimes.
What are freedom from unwarranted search and seizure, right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination, and other freedoms secured that are not listed in the Constitution?