Electoral College
Federalism
Constitutions
Civil Rights
Civil Liberties
100

The number of electoral votes currently needed to win a U.S. election. 

What are 270 electoral votes? 

100

A system of government in which powers are divided between a national government and a regional government. It allows for shared power, and dual sovereignty and creates a compound republic.

What is Federalism?

100

Three fundamental rules of government. 

What are Institutions, Powers, and Protections? 

100

The powers are guaranteed by the government. It has positive guarantees and displays what the government must ensure you can do.

What are civil rights?

100

Protections from government action. Negative guarantees, what the government cannot do. 

What are Civil Liberties?

200

The number of electors in the current electoral college.

What are 538 electors?

200
The two types of Federalism are represented by a layer cake and a marble cake. 

What are Dual and Cooperative? 

200
Actions that are both constitutional and inconsistent with settled practices and understandings. They include both extraordinarily high stakes and extraordinary long-term risks. 



What is Constitutional Hardball?

200

Examples of Formal Race and Disenfranchisements.

What are poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy tests, and white primary?

200

It keeps the government responsive, it has a marketplace of ideas, and other checks are meaningless without it. Speech as a "preferred freedom". 

What are reasons to protect the first amendment of free speech?

300
The minimum number of electoral votes a state can have.

What are 3 electoral votes? 

300

State refusal to cooperate with federal agencies and/or law enforcement. 

What is Uncooperative Federalism? 

300

It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.

What is the 3/5's Compromise? 

300

Examples of Informal Race and Disenfranchisements. 

What are social pressure, intimidation, and violence?

300

Must be content-neutral, with no prior restraint, may not be vague, and government must use the least drastic means of constraint. 

What are limits on laws constraining speech?

400

The most recent president to lose the electoral college but win the election. 

Who is Donald Trump? 

400

A huge win for Federalists through the ability to raise armies, declare war, and the president is being commander in Chief.

What are National Security Powers?

400

Provided for a bicameral legislature, with representation in the House of Representatives according to population and in the Senate by equal numbers for each state.

What is the Conneticut Compromise? 

400

Women were barred from voting, holding office, jury service, filing lawsuits, owning property. The 14th Amendment (equal protection) didn't apply to women. Women were still regarded as the center of home and family life. 

What was Gender Discrimination?

400

Words whose "very utterance inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace“.

What is unprotected speech?

500

The year the electoral college was created. 

What is 1787?

500

5 reasons why Federalism was chosen. 

What are states already existed, fear of tyranny, the confederation had failed, unity without uniformity, and policy experimentation? 

500

The biggest challenge the writers of the Constitution faced. 

What is a stronger government that can prevent anarchy and tyranny while balancing conflicting interests? 

500

The way in which courts evaluate discriminatory laws?

Strict scrutiny: the government must show compelling public interest. Heightened scrutiny: the government must have an important state purpose. Rational bias:  some rational connection to a legitimate government purpose

500

Violence and property damage, trespassing, encroachment on rights of others, and burdens on government functions. 

What are examples of non-speech that aren't supported by the first amendment?