What is the state supreme court and the county court?
100
The system of government where power is shared between the national/central and the state governments.
What is federalism?
100
The beginning of both the US and FL Constitutions.
What is the Preamble?
100
Miranda v Madison established this - which means that the Supreme Court can declare an act unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
100
The name for a local law.
What is an ordinance?
200
The level of court in Florida that is below the district/trial courts - this court deals with minor crimes and traffic offenses.
What is county courts?
200
The level of government that is responsible for setting speed limits in residential neighborhoods (national, state, local)
What is local?
200
The one item that is not a similarity between the US and the FL Constitution: Bill of Rights, articles, 3 branches, amendments.
What is Bill of Rights?
200
This case reversed the ruling of Plessy v Ferguson, making the separating of people by their race unconstutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
200
In the lawmaking process of a state, after an introduced bill is first approved by the House of Representatives, it goes here.
What is to the state Senate?
300
This court (be specific) can hear appeals from the US District Court of Appeals and a state Supreme Court.
What is the US Supreme Court?
300
The one item below that is not a reserved power: provide public education, provide trash collection, issue driver's licenses, establishes court system
What is provide trash collection?
300
The term that means that no state law or constitution can go against the US Constitution and federal laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause (or the supreme law of the land)?
300
The case that made it mandatory that a person does not need to self-incriminate, can have a lawyer, and must be told of the dangers if they ignore those rights.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
300
The elected body or group a person would address if they wanted public school start and end times to be changed.
What is the School Board?
400
In a trial, this is responsible for listening to the evidence, determining the facts, and reaching a verdict.
What is the jury?
400
The 10th Amendment establishes this type of powers (must give correct name) that are not limited as there is no list of them.
What are reserved powers?
400
The state equal to the President; the state equal to Congress.
What is the governor; what is the legislature?
400
The amendment that Tinker v Des Moines and Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier both were centered around.
What is the 1st amendment (free speech)?
400
The elected body or group that a person would go to to fix a pothole in front of their house.
What is the city/county council/commission?
500
In a trial, this side's job is to prove that the other side is guilty of a crime or has committed a wrongdoing.
What is the plaintiff/prosecutor?
500
All but one of the following are concurrent powers:
establishing courts, taxing citizens, protecting citizens, creating post offices
What is creating post offices?
500
The group that votes on US amendments, AND the group that votes on FL amendments.
What is federal and state legislators, AND what is FL voters?
500
This right in the 5th Amendment is what Gideon v Wainwright, Miranda v Arizona, and in re Gault have in common.
What is the right to due process?
500
The power of a local government to make decisions independent of the state.