Process by which we may change the US Constitution.
What is an amendment?
100
This term means to shoot down a bill, or proposed law.
What is veto?
100
In Latin, this means "big paper"; it transfered power from the English king to the nobles in 1215 AD.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
Period of time post-Civil War, where the North rebuilt the South.
What is Reconstruction?
100
The sharing of power between the states and national govts.; it's a tug-o-war!
What is federalism?
200
The unwritten constitution allows for Geo. Washington to have this group of advisors.
What is the cabinet?
200
This term means to bring charges of wrongdoing to a government official.
What is empeachment?
200
Our first constitution; it lacked an executive and judicial branch.......How lame!
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
Chief Justice of Supreme Court who first strengthened the branch by using judicial review.
Who was John Marshall?
200
Plessy v. Ferguson stated that segregation or separation of races is legal if this condition exisited.
What is "separate, but equal"?
300
The unwritten constitution allowed for the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional by using this tool.
What is judicial review?
300
This branch of govt. upholds the laws.
What is the executive branch?
300
A Latin term that all citizens enjoy; it literally means, "produce the body" (for trial).
What is habeas corpus?
300
President who tried relief, reform, recovery programs to bring the nation out of the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
300
This type of democracy has, as a feature, elected representatives.
What is a republic?
400
Without these, the US Constitution would not have been ratified; it guaranteed citizens rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
John Locke asserted citizens have a contract with the govt., and govt. power originates from this.
Who are "the governed"?
400
This American document let Britain know that their abuses to us were not going to be tolerated, and we were breaking away to form a new nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Radical Republicans fought this US President during Reconstruction, going so far as to empeach him.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
400
Little Rock Central High School, Ark. attempted to bar black students from entering white classrooms. It failed to do so, allowing this Supreme Court decision in 1954 to prevail.
What is Brown v. Bd. of Ed, Topeka, Kansas?
500
The conflict of how strong the national govt. should be led to the formation of these groups, which concerned George Washington.
What is political parties?
500
This Frenchman's idea of separating a tyrant's power into three branches was the basis for the US Constitution.
Who was Montesquieu?
500
Our Congress is modeled after a British lawmaking body, which includes a House of Lords, and a House of Commons.
What is Parliament?
500
A Presidential veto may not be the final word on a bill, if Congress can muster 2/3 votes to shoot it down with this.
What is an override?
500
These southern laws virtually kept blacks in a state of slavery after the civil war.