This guarantees that the government can not censor the media before a story is published
What is the Prior Restrain Doctrine?
100
According to the US Constitution this is the number of Senators for each state?
What is two?
100
This is the portion of the Constitution that establishes the roles and responsibilities of the office of President.
What is Article II?
100
He is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Who is John Roberts?
100
This Amendment Protects the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
200
These are the 5 Protections guaranteed by the First Amendment
What are Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press, Right to Assemble, Right to Petition the government?
200
This is the person that is the leader of the Senate? (position and name)
Who is Vice President, Joe Biden?
200
This is the term used when the President fails to sign a law that was passed by Congress within 10 days of the adjournment of Congress.
What is a pocket veto?
200
This is the power of the courts to declare null and void laws of Congress that they find unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
200
This Amendment protects an individual from self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment
300
This is the test used to determine whether the First Amendment Establishment Clause has been violated?
What is the Lemon Test?
300
The allocation of seats in the House of Representatives after each election is called this?
What is redistricting?
300
Those chosen to cast a direct vote for president by a process determined by each state are collectively called this.
What is the electoral college?
300
This is the name of the Supreme Court case that declared "Separate but Equal" is Legal, that was later overturned.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This Amendment guarantees freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
400
This states that people should have complete Freedom of Speech unless there is justified fear that the language will provoke evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
What is the Clear and Present Danger Doctrine?
400
This is the term for the redrawing of district lines in order to confer an advantage on some partisan or political interest.
What is gerrymandering?
400
This policy, that was enacted as an executive order, was designed to enhance opportunities for groups that have suffered discrimination in the past
What is Affirmative Action?
400
This is a theory of constitutional interpretation in which the Court determines the constitutionality of a law in light of what the words of the Constitution obviously seem to say.
What is plain-meaning-of-the-text theory?
400
This Amendment guarantees freedom from unlawful search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
500
This protects a person's right to ask for assistance from or make requests to the government, with out the fear of punishment.
What is right to petition?
500
This is the name of a committee with fixed membership that persists from one Congress to the next.
What is a standing committee?
500
This is the term used to describe the process by which a president signs part of a bill but vetoes another part of the bill. It is unconstitutional.
What is line-item veto?
500
Passing an amendment to the Constitution, Revising a Statute, and non-implementation of a Court Ruling are all examples of this.
What are checks on the Judicial Branch?
500
This is the term for the case-by-case process by which the government applies the Constitution and its Amendments to the states.