Legislative
The Primary job of our legislature.
Making Laws
This role indicates that the President is responsible for the armed forces of the United States.
Commander-in-Chief
The length of the term of a Supreme Court Justice
Life appointment
The racist laws were used to discriminate against African Americans in the post-reconstruction era United States.
Jim Crow laws/policies
Income tax is an example of what category of this kind of economic policy.
Fiscal Policy
Not including the Vice President, this person is the most powerful figure in the House of Representatives
The Speaker of the House
The Primary check that the Chief executive has over the congress of the United States.
The Veto
The process by which courts determine if a law is constitutional or not.
Judicial Review
Considered one of the most infamous cases of the Supreme Court, the ruling from this court case determined that slaves were not citizens and therefore were not to be provided equal protections in court.
Dredd Scott v. Sandford
In this form of economy, there are no government regulations on the conduct of business.
Free Market Economy (Laissez Faire Economy)
The Senate has how many members?
When the president supersedes the normal law making process to introduce a new regulation/rule, this is called __________.
An Executive Order
A type of trial in which the court resolve disputes between two people, businesses, or organizations.
Civil Trial
Part of the compromise of 1850, the ruling that all runaway slaves must be returned to their owner, even if they had made it to free states was called the _________________.
Fugitive Slave Act.
What kind of animal is the one pet that Mr. G owns?
A cat.
Which of the two houses of the legislature is the rule of unlimited debate allowed?
The Senate
The ability to impeach the president is an example of this constitutional principle which additionally limits the powers of each of the branches of government.
Checks and Balances
When a court makes a decision, it has a lasting effect on the law of the land. This effect is often called ________________.
(Legal) Precedent.
The amendment that provided suffrage to women in the United States.
19th Amendment.
In this social program, people under a certain income bracket are provided healthcare insurance by the state/federal government.
Medicaid
If the senate and house both pass the same bill, but with differing clauses, what group facilitates an agreement between the different versions.
State-of-the-Union Address
A doctrine that extends the exclusionary rule to make evidence inadmissible in court if it was derived from evidence that was illegally obtained.
Fruit of the poisonous tree
Undertaking carefully publicized legal challenges to segregation and disenfranchisement in federal courts, this organization was incredibly important during the civil rights movement.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Name one of the other 3 courses that Mr. G has taught at Adams High School.
Big History, Economics, AP Macroeconomics