Supreme Court Cases
Court case that established our Miranda Rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Representation in this chamber is based on population.
What is the House of Representatives?
Head of the national executive branch (looking for the term, not the person).
Who is the President?
The amendment that gives us our freedom of speech, the press, religion, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech is still applicable to students in schools, so long as it does not disrupt the school environment.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
Equal representation for all states in this chamber.
What is the Senate?
Group of advisors to the president, appointed by themself and approved by the Senate.
What is the bureaucracy?
Right to remain silent, no self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Determined money is free speech, and overturned parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
Minority power in the Senate that allows a senator to take the floor and prolong debate/discussion on a bill.
What is the filibuster?
The power to turn down a bill passed by both the House and Senate, blocking it from becoming law.
What is the veto?
Right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
Determined Georgia has no right to regulate interactions between the Cherokee and Georgian people. It was a famously unenforced decision.
The agreement that split our legislative branch into two chambers, combining the New Jersey and Virginia Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
The votes that actually count to elect the president, requiring 270 to win.
What is the Electoral College?
No quartering soldiers during times of peace.
What is the Third Amendment?
Determined flag burning is a legal use of one's First Amendment rights.
What is Texas v. Lopez/U.S. v. Lopez?
When a public official leaves office, and then picks up a job for a private industry as a lobbyist.
What is the Revolving Door?
“...[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.”
What is the Take Care clause?
What is the 21st Amendment?