Amendments
The First 10 Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
All appropriation bills start here.
Killing the bill in the Committee is called
What is pigeonholing?
The person/people in charge of gerrymandering
What is the state governor or the state legislature?
This Supreme Court case helped to coin the term "Miranda rights"
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
These two Amendments made it illegal to deny voting rights based on race or gender but provided loopholes to still prevent these people from voting.
What are the 15th and 19th Amendments?
In the event of a President or high ranking official being impeached, this branch of the Legislature acts as the jury in these trials.
What is the Senate?
Each Senator can speak twice, but for as long as they want to.
What is the Two Speech Rule?
The Supreme Court case where it was decided the courts may decide redistricting cases where the lines are drawn illegally.
What is Baker v. Carr?
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Texas law violated the right to privacy when it came to abortions.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This Amendment protects citizens from illegal searches and seizures and makes it to where warrants can only be obtained with probable cause.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This gives Congress the power to carry out their delegated duties?
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
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What is the Elastic Clause?
What is a pocket veto?
What is packing and cracking?
This court case has shown that people have developed more of a standard of decency, as it has stated that the execution of minors is Unconstitutional under the 8th Amendment.
What is Roper v. Simmons?
This Amendment was created essentially to counteract another Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The expresses/enumerated powers of Congress are stated...
What is in the Constitution, Article I, Section 8?
After both branches have sorted out the differences between their two bills, it is taken back to vote on by both the House and the Senate. They are voting on
What is the conference report?
The person who gerrymandering is named after
Who is Governor Elbridge Gerry?
A group of students protested the war while on school property and the wearing of the armbands was well within their freedom to protest, so long as they did not interfere with school activities.
The 14th Amendment applies government protections of citizens' rights to state governments. However, there are a lot of rights that must be dealt with. What is the process the Supreme Court uses to define citizens' rights?
What is Selective Incorporation?
There are powers that are denied to Congress, such as the fact that they cannot suspend the without probable cause, except during wartime.
What is the writ of Habeas Corpus?
If the President were to veto the bill the House and Senate sent to him to sign, they can override the President's veto with a 2/3 majority vote. How many of each branch is needed in order to win?
What is 291 for the House and 67 for the Senate?
Though Gerrymandering is legal, there is a form of gerrymandering that is illegal.
What is affirmative/racial gerrymandering?
This case showed that religion outweighed the interests of the state government wanting to keep attendance rates up going from 8th grade into high school.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?