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This amendment established the popular voting for Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
This amendment ensures the right to a jury trial in federal civil cases involving claims exceeding twenty dollars.
What is the 7th amendment?
This term describes the division of power between national and state governments in the United States.
What is federalism?
In the U.S. legal system, this type of precedent must be followed by lower courts within the same jurisdiction.
What is a binding precedent?
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and the separate but equal doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
One can not be denied the right to voted based on this amendment.
What is the 19th amendment?
The death penalty could be seen to some as a violation of this amendment.
What is the 8th amendment?
The federal government and the state governments share these powers at times.
What is concurrent power?
This Latin phrase, meaning "to stand by things decided," embodies the principle that courts should follow established precedents to ensure consistency in the law.
What is stare decisis?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision established a woman's right to choose an abortion under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This amendment, originally proposed in 1789, prohibits any law that changes the compensation of Senators and Representatives from taking effect until after the next election.
What is the 27th amendment?
Protects us from self incrimination and double jeopardy.
What is the 5th amendment?
When a court considers a decision from another jurisdiction as guidance but is not obligated to follow it, it is applying this type of precedent.
What is persuasive precedent?
This case recognized a constitutional "right to privacy" for married couples, striking down a law banning contraceptives.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
With this amendment, a person who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected president, may be elected to the presidency to serve one term through this amendment.
What is the 22nd amendment?
This amendment ensures the right to legal counsel and an impartial jury.
What is the 6th amendment?
This power is not shared but is exercised on only one level.
What are exclusive powers?
This Latin term, meaning "to be more fully informed," is used as a request for the Supreme Court to consider a case.
What is a writ of certiorari?
This 2022 decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stating the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson?
This amendment allowed Congress the power to levy income taxes without apportionment among the states.
What is the 16th amendment?
This amendment is in response to the forceful housing and feeding of soldiers after the war.
What is the 3rd amendment?