Key Terms
Amendments
SCOTUS/Courts
Religion
Grants
100
protections against government action.
What are civil liberties?
100
This amendment allows for "the right to bear arms".
What is the second amendment?
100
This was the defendant in the United States v. Lopez court case.
What was the united states?
100
In this amendment the idea of free worship was stated
What is the first?
100
A grant from the federal government to fund a specific project that gives the state great freedom in terms of spending the vested revenue.
What is a block grant?
200
This, ______ _________, is the pattern in which the federal government can provide grants and funds to the states
What is fiscal federalism?
200
This amendment guarantees a speedy and fast trial for all.
What is the sixth amendment?
200
In this court case it was determined it was unconstitutional for the state to force an abortion in the first trimester.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
This clause in the constitution protects a persons right to express their religious beliefs.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
200
A grant from the federal government to fund a project with many restrictions to ensure the state uses the revenue for a specific purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
300
Powers explicitly denied to the government.
What are denied powers?
300
In this act the US government undermined several aspects of the amendment and the criminal justice system
What is the patriot act?
300
In this process of the Criminal justice system you have:
Right to be informed of accusations (Sixth Amendment)
Right to have the "assistance of counsel" (Sixth Amendment)
What is arrest?
300
In this 1963 court case it was determined Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading in schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
What is School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp?
300
A type of grant awarded to a specific project of a particular deliverable.
What is a project grant?
400
The process of returning power to the states
What is devolution?
400
This clause of the constitution guaranteed that congress shall make no law respecting the creation of a national religion.
What is the Establishment clause?
400
In this court case it was determined state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York’s schoolchildren.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
400
This clause of the constitution guaranteed that congress shall make no law respecting the creation of a national religion.
What is the establishment clause?
400
A category of categorical grants; allocated to state and local governments with specific requirements listed in the state or in the administrative agencies regulations.
What is a formula grant?
500
A written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom it is made.
Daily Double!
What is libel?
500
The idea that the united states government must apply the protections of the bill of rights to all states.
What is incorporation?
500
In this 1987 court case it resulted in the upholding of the constitutionality of the death penalty against charges that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment
What is McCleskey v. Kemp?
500
Lemon vs Kurtzman established a three tier system for judging violations to the constitution's religion clauses. It included 1) a secular legislative purpose, 2) No excessive "Entanglement" and THIS
What is "neither advance nor inhibit religion"?
500
Food stamps, Head start, and Medicaid are 3 examples of ________ grants.
What are categorical grants?