SCOTUS Cases
Constitution / Federalism
Congress
Parties and Elections
Civil Rights
100
This 1925 SCOTUS case overturned Barron v. Baltimore and established the incorporation doctrine.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
100
This Constitutional Amendment is the basis for state power.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
100
This committee - the most powerful in the House - determines time limits and amendment procedures for bills being introduced to the full House.
What is Rules Committee?
100
This term applies to interest groups, political parties, elections, and the mass media.
What is a linkage institution?
100
This Constitutional Amendment extended suffrage to women.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
200
This SCOTUS case declared that aid to church-related schools must have a secular purpose and not foster government "entanglement" with religion.
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman?
200
The Constitution prohibits suspension of this -- a court order requiring jailers to explain why they are holding a prisoner in custody.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
200
This vote passes if 3/5 of the Senate votes to end a filibuster.
What is cloture?
200
This is the current tendency of states to move their primary elections earlier to catch more national attention.
What is frontloading?
200
This Constitutional Amendment extended suffrage to African Americans.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
300
This 1931 SCOTUS case held that newspapers are protected from prior restraint.
What is Near v. Minnesota?
300
This term applies to all powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
300
This term is used to describe the tendency of congressmen to take high paying jobs lobbying their ex-colleagues in Congress.
What is the revolving door?
300
This term is used to describe the shifts in the coalitions that make up the major political parties.
What is party realignment?
300
This SCOTUS case ruled that race may be a factor in college admissions, but a school may not set a specific quota.
What is Regents of University of California v. Bakke (and Gratz, Grutter v. Bollinger)
400
This 1997 court case created the three-pronged test for determining if material is obscene and therefore not protected by the First Amendment.
What is Miller v. California?
400
This event is believed to have increased the sense of urgency for a stronger national government just before the Constitutional Convention met.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
This party leadership post has the responsibility of working to get the party together to pass legislation.
What is a whip?
400
This privilege of free direct mail to constituents contributes to high incumbent reelection rates.
What is the franking privilege?
400
The regular pattern in which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates.
What is the gender gap?
500
This 1964 court case applied the "actual malice" (and reckless disregard for the truth) standard to libel lawsuits.
What is New York Times v. Sullivan?
500
This French enlightenment political thinker was famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
500
This congressional staff agency focuses on analyzing the president's budget and making economic projections.
What is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)?
500
This Constitutional Amendment made it a federal requirement to maintain a voting age of 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
500
This SCOTUS case held that slaves in the North had no citizenship rights and Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
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