Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
This amendment protects freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
This scandal involved President Bill Clinton and a White House intern.
What is the Monica Lewinsky scandal?
FBI
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
This Founding Father is known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
This branch can veto bills passed by Congress.
What is the Executive Branch (the President)?
This amendment guarantees due process of law.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This President resigned before he could be removed from office due to a major political scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
CIA
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
This Founding Father wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This branch can declare a presidential action unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch (the Supreme Court)?
This landmark case allowed burning of the US flag as protected free speech.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
This scandal involved the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran and using the profits to fund Contra rebels.
What is Iran-Contra?
FEC
What is the Federal Election Commission?
This Founding Father served as the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This congressional power allows Congress to remove a president, judge, or other federal official from office.
What is impeachment and removal?
This act outlawed discrimination in public accommodations in 1964.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The break-in that led to the Watergate scandal occurred at the headquarters of this political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
PAC
What is a Political Action Committee?
This Founding Father was the principal author of many Federalist Papers and the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This Senate power serves as a check on the President's ability to appoint federal judges, cabinet members, and ambassadors.
What is advice and consent (confirmation of appointments)?
This case said schools only need reasonable cause for searches.
What is TLO v New Jersey?
This scandal during President Warren Harding's administration involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This elder statesman helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, attended the Constitutional Convention, and is the only Founder to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Treaty of Paris.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate to perform this action against a President's veto.
What is overriding a veto?