Constitution and amendments
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
What is the First Amendment?
Type of committee formed to fix differences between house and Senate versions of a bill
What is a conference committee?
Order by the president that carries the force of law without needing congressional approval
What is an executive order?
Case that established judicial review
What is Marbury V. Madison?
Clause in the constitution that allows Congress to pass laws needed to carry out its powers
What is the necessary and proper clause?
States that federal laws take priority over state laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Term describes the strategy of delaying a vote in the Senate by speaking for an extended period
What is filibuster?
Term for the presidents ability to withhold certain information from Congress or the judiciary
What is executive privilege?
Supreme court case that ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
Term describes the division of power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
Amendment lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th amendment?
This committee in the House determines how bills are debated and amended.
What is the House rules committee?
This act limits the presidents ability to send troops combat without congressional approval
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
Case that ruled that campaign donations are a form of free speech
What is Citizens United V. FEC
Clause that gives Congress the power to regulate trade between states and foreign nations
What is the commerce clause?
Which amendment was interpreted in the case Gideon V. Wainwright to guarantee legal counsel to defendants in criminal cases
What is the 6th amendment
Type of legislative committee that is created for a limited time and a specific purpose often to investigate an issue
What is a select committee?
Supreme court case that ruled that the president does not have absolute immunity from the judicial process
What is United States V. Nixon?
This case ruled that students do not lose their First Amendment rights when they enter school (Peacefully)
What is Tinker V. Des Moines?
Type of grant that gives states some discretion in how they spend the federal money given
What is a block grant?
When the federal government mandates state compliance with laws without providing funding
What are unfunded mandates?
Funds allocated by Congress for specific projects, often criticized as 'pork-barrel' spending.
What are earmarks?
Name of an informal power that the president has which allows them to push a legislative agenda by appealing to the public through speeches, social media…etc
What is the bully pulpit?
The Supreme Court case that ruled that the government has the power to regulate interstate commerce
What Is Gibbons V. Ogden?
This is the process by which a state returns a fugitive to the state where they committed a crime
What is extradition?