The study of relationships between the national
government (usually called the federal
government) and state governments.
What is Federalism?
protect individuals from abuses of power by the government.
What are civil liberties?
First 10 amendments in the US Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Tend to control States
What are Republicans?
The supreme court may decide to apply one amendment of the BOR to the states rather than all
What is selective incorporation?
No quartering of soldiers
Tend to control cities
This intends to keep school and religious practices separate.
What is the wall of separation?
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
requires that States prohibit persons under 21
years of age from purchasing or publicly
possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of
receiving State highway funds.
What was the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act?
Because of this, things like 'in God we Trust' can be found on coins, and prayer can be held in the legislature.
What is accommodation?
Both of these amendments have to do with 'due process'
What are the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments?
Archbishop Flores sued City of Boerne for
violating Church’s rights under the 1993 Religious
Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) by denying him
a permit to expand church.
What is Boerne v. Flores?
Supreme Court ruled that the school had violated the students’ First Amendment freedom and that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gates.”
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
Amendments can only be ratified by these
What are the states?