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Founding Documents
Federalist v Anti-Federalist
Articles of Confederation
100

It applies government protections of citizen's rights to the state governments and creates selective incorporation.

What is the 14th amendment?

100

Distributed leaflets declaring the draft violated the 13th amendment and the decision declared that the clear and present danger test of the first amendment does not protect does not protect speech that approaches creating a clear and present danger of a significant evil that Congress has power to prevent.

What is Schenck v. The US?

100
Deliberately made the law making process long and slow.

What is the founding fathers?

100

The author of Federalist Paper 10 where it talks about how political factions are inevitable.

What is James Madison?

100

Political party that wanted a strong central government.

What are the Federalists?
200

Sets the presidential term to 2 terms.

What is the 22nd amendment?

200

A group of students wearing an arm band in opposition to the Vietnam war. The Court also held that the students did not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property.

What is Tinker v. Des Moines?

200

Wrote the Federalist papers 51.

What is James Madison?

200

Talks about how checks and balances need to be in place to prevent the government from getting too powerful.

What is Federalist paper No. 51?

200

Political Party that wanted a small central government.

What are the anti-federalists?

300

Allows Washington D.C. to vote.

What is the 23th amendment?

300

Amish parents didn't want to send their kids to school. The Court held that an individual's interests in the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment outweighed the State's interests in compelling school attendance beyond the eighth grade.

What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?

300

Wrote federalist paper 1.

What is Alexander Hamilton?

300

Written by Alexander Hamilton and discusses the role of the presidency and what we need in that role.

What is Federalist Paper No. 70?

300

Did not allow for the government to tax the people under one currency.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

400

Eliminated poll tax.

What is the 24th amendment?

400

Guy went on school grounds with a gun and was taken to court on the account of the commerce clause. Court ruled that the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was unconstitutional and the commerce clause only effects economics.

What is the US v. Lopez?

400

Took the phrase "pursuit of happiness" from John Locke.

What is Thomas Jefferson?

400

Written by Alexander Hamilton and discusses the Judiciary branch: how it is necessary, and doesn't pose a threat to the government because it can't harm people's rights.

What is Federalist paper No. 78?

400

First form of government after severance from Great Britain.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

500

Sets the guidelines for the order of succession if the president is unable to serve.

What is the 25th amendment?

500

The 14th amendment right to privacy protects the right to have an abortion. Ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

What is Roe V. Wade?

500

Did not sign the constitution.

What is Thomas Jefferson?

500
A paper discussing its opposition of the Constitution and the author was worried for the future generations and central government.

What is Brutus No. 1?

500

Convention to change the Articles of Confederation.

What is the Constitutional Convention?

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