Name one of the two formal duties, according to the Constitution, of the Vice President of the United States.
What is preside over the Senate and/or help decide the line of Presidential succession?
100
This development led to a change in the Electoral college system following the election of 1800.
What are political parties?
100
This rule states that evidence gained as a result of an illegal act by police cannot be used at the trail of the person from whom the evidence was seized.
What is the exclusionary rule?
100
This is how long a Supreme Court justice may serve on the Supreme Court.
What is for life?
100
This is how long someone serves when they are elected to the House of Representatives
What is two (2) years?
200
This Presidential tradition was broken by Franklin D. Roosevelt and resolved through the passage of 22nd Amendment.
What is no-third-term tradition?
200
This is spending in which the President and Congress can choose from the budget.
What is discretionary spending?
200
This institution has the power to confirm or deny the Presidents selection of every federal judge.
What is the Senate?
200
This is the number of justices that make up the Supreme Court.
What is nine (9)?
200
This is how long someone serves when they are elected to the Senate.
What is six (6) years?
300
According to the 12th Amendment, if no one person receives a majority of electoral votes for President, they will decide the issue.
Who is the House of Representatives?
300
The agency is responsible for carrying policies about the governments money.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
300
In 1954, this was the Supreme Courts reasoning for overturning laws requiring different schools for white students and African-American students
What is separate schools can never be equal?
300
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that segregation by race was, in fact, Constitutional.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
300
This is how many members there are in the House of Representatives
What is 435 members?
400
McCulloch v. Maryland upheld the concept of implied powers and set a pattern for this type of approach to interpreting the Constitution.
What is a liberal constructionist/interpretation?
400
This guarantee is provided by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is No state may deny basic rights to its people?
400
The fact that a defendant must be told of the reason(s) of his/her charge(s) against them is a guarantee of this amendment to the Constitution
What is the 6th Amendment?
400
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that segregation by race of public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Topeka Board of Education?
400
This many Senators make up the U.S. Senate
What is 100?
500
The Constitution gives the primary responsibility of conducting Foreign policy to this person.
Who is the President?
500
This is the first guarantee of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
What is freedom of religion?
500
This amendment makes it illegal, in most cases, for the government to search a home without god reason.
What is the 4th Amendment?
500
A U.S. citizen does not have to prove his/her innocence is guaranteed in this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 5th Amendment?
500
When a President or elected official is removed from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors" it is called this.