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John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin and the withholding of federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Hamilton's document about an independent judiciary that is not powerful.
What is Federalist 78?
The concept and foundation of federalism come from this
What is the 10th amendment?
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government nor denied the states.
What are reserved powers?
The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts
What is appellate jurisdiction?
Which part of the government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the supreme court?
Actions taken by the Federal Reserve to control the economy by promoting growth and contractions and control the money supply.
What is monetary supply?
The two clauses regarding religion in the first amendment.
What are the free exercise clause and the establishment clause?
The federal courts use this power to determine whether an act taken by a department or branch is constitutional.
What is judicial review?
In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file this kind brief advising the court on the issue of the case.
What is an Amicus Curaie brief?
The two clauses of the 14th amendment.
What are the due process and equal protection clause?
This required document argues that liberty is safest in a large republic and makes tyranny by the majority more difficult since ruling coalitions will always be unstable.
What is Federalist #10?
Belief that government must manage the economy by spending more money during recessions and cutting spending when there is inflation.
What is Keynesian Economics?
This is the type of segregation seen in the North, which is not caused by laws; rather it is the result of residential segregation, preferred living patterns, and informal social sources.
What is de facto segregation?
The Supreme court has this in rare court cases, "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party", where the case goes directly to them.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive, this body of electors are selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral college?
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census.
What is reapportionment?
A procedural device designed to expedite the legislative work in the House in which slightly less formal rules for conduct of debate and voting on amendments apply.
What is the Committee of the Whole?
The process by which individual liberties originally only applied to the federal government but now are applied to the states.
What is selective incorporation?
The type of democracy in which citizens have the power to impact policy decisions
What is a participatory democracy?
Legislation that is slipped into a bill to help fund a local project for a legislator
What is pork barrel legislation?
The ability to use the office of the presidency to promote a particular program and/or to influence Congress to accept certain legislative proposals.
What is the bully pulpit?