Amendments
Constitution
Vocabulary
Supreme Court
Miscellaneous
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What is the number of amendments to the constitution
100
A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central government and regional or sub-divisional governments. Both types of government act directly upon the people through their officials and laws.
What is Federalism
100
A political power reserved by a constitution to the exclusive jurisdiction of a specified political authority
What are Reserved Powers
100
The highest judicial tribunal in a political unit (as a nation or state)
What is the Supreme Court
100
May not violate the Bill of Rights May not impose export taxes among states May not use money from the Treasury without the passage and approval of an appropriations bill May not change state boundaries
What are powers denied to the federal government?
200
Bill Of Rights
What are the First 10 Amendments called
200
It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
What is the Supremacy Clause
200
The act of implicating oneself in a crime or exposing oneself to criminal prosecution. May occur as a result of interrogation or may be made voluntarily
What is self incrimination
200
The first United States Supreme Court interpretation of the recently-enacted Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. It was a pivotal case in early civil rights law, reading the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the "privileges or immunities" conferred by virtue of Federal, United States citizenship, to all individuals of all states within it; but not to protect the various privileges or immunities incident to citizenship of a state.
What are the Slaughterhouse Cases
200
The right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
300
Protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights. 13, 14, & 15
What are the civil war amendments
300
A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power
What are Checks and Balances
300
The act of publishing a false statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone
What is libel
300
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What was Brown vs Board of Education
300
A government action that prohibits speech or other expression before it can take place. There are two forms of this - Statute or regulation and Judicial injunction.
What is Prior Restraint?
400
Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause as determined by a neutral judge or magistrate. Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States.
What are the 4th and 18th amendments
400
Powers that are shared by both the State and the federal government, exercised simultaneously.
What are concurrent powers
400
A right of a government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction
What is eminent domain?
400
Was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court overturned the disorderly conduct charges against __ and others for peaceful demonstrations in ___
What was Gregory v Chicago
400
They meant all those who could carry arms, organized when needed, to fight a corrupt federal government. Every citizen who’s able to bear arms. That was the intent.
What was the intent of the Framers upon writing the second amendment.
500
Right to be free from discrimination in states to have due process of law, to have equal protection of the law Gives women the right to vote No citizen may be deprived of the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude
What are amendments 14, 19, and 15
500
Popular Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Judicial Review, Federalism
What are the six foundational principals the US Constitution is based upon.
500
To make a false spoken statement that causes people to have a bad opinion of someone. The official and proper way of doing things in a legal case : the rule that a legal case must be done in a way that protects the rights of all the people involved
What is Slander and Due Process
500
Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford Griswold v. Connecticut Roe v. Wade Olmstead v. United States
What are cases the uphold the right to privacy
500
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is the preamble of the Constitution?
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