Foundational Files
Federalist 70 calls for this type of single executive.
What is energetic?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the First Amendment?
A major check on federal judges/executives by Congress.
What is impeachment?
The type of grant that is preferred by states.
What are block grants?
Dr. King believes this is the best course of action to combat racial segregation in Birmingham in Letter From a Birmingham Jail.
What is immediate nonviolent direct action?
In this case, the belief that Congress could pass the Gun Free School Zones Act under the Commerce Clause was struck down as it was ruled that Congress exceeded its power in doing so.
What is US v. Lopez?
This amendment meant that the Senate would now be directly elected by the people in addition to the House.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The chamber of Congress in which all bills concerning the raising of revenue must be introduced in.
What is the House of Representatives?
The power to levy taxes is this type of power.
What is a concurrent power?
The branch of government that should be the most powerful according to Federalist 51.
What is the legislative branch?
The argument that President Nixon utilized to prevent the Pentagon Papers from being published in the case of New York Times v. US.
What is a violation of prior restraint?
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
The bureaucracy does this with vague legislation passed by Congress.
What is implementation?
The type of fiscal policy that Republicans favor.
What is supply-side economics/Reaganomics?
According to Federalist 78, the judiciary serves the least threat to democracy for these two reasons.
What are the lack of the power of the purse and the power of the sword?
The doctrine that was utilized in the ruling for McDonald v. Chicago.
What is selective incorporation?
The way Congress can propose (but not ratify) a successful amendment.
What is through a 2/3 vote from both houses of Congress?
The State of the Union Address may demonstrate this one of the president's informal powers.
What is the bully pulpit?
The type of spending that is done with the revenue that remains after mandatory spending.
What is discretionary spending?
The two Constitutional clauses that are mentioned to argue for a smaller rather than larger republic in Brutus I.
What are the Elastic/Necessary and Proper Clause & the Supremacy Clause?
The ruling in Shaw v. Reno.
What is that gerrymandering among racial lines is unconstitutional?
The compromise for the slave trade to ratify the Constitution.
What is the circling back to the issue of slavery in 20 years (1808)?
This happens when a bill fails to become law because the president didn't sign it within 10 days before Congress adjourns.
What is a pocket veto?
The major impact of Citizens United v. FEC.
What is an increase in the number of super PACs?