Required Docs
This document was :
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries
Declared the United States as a free state
All men are created equal and given certain inalienable rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This required case claimed the state of NY breached the Establishment Clause by allowing public schools to usher in an optional nondenominational prayer.
What is Engel v. Vitale (1962)?
The five freedoms in the first amendment.
What are freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly, and religion?
These are the term limits for a Senator and Representative.
What are 6 and 2 years?
Budget proposals and the appointing/removal of agency heads are two checks that this branch of the government has on bureaucracy
What is the executive branch?
First setup up of the American Government
During the Revolutionary War
Failed because states had all the power
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the Constitutional issue of US v. Lopez (1995).
What is the Commerce Clause?
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th amendments.
2nd: What is the right to bear arms?
3rd: What is no quartering of soldiers?
4th: What is no unreasonable search and seizure?
When one or more Senators prolong debate on proposed legislation to delay or entirely prevent a decision.
What is a filibuster?
Reviewing policies and rules & declaring them unconstitutional is a check that this branch does on the bureaucracy.
What is the judicial branch?
This document addresses the question of how to reconcile citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others Madison saw factions as inevitable due to the nature of man-- people will continue to form alliances with those who are most similar to them and they will sometimes work against the public interest and infringe upon the rights of others. He thus questions how to guard against those dangers.
What is Fed 10?
In Brown vs Board of Education, the students and families sued over this Constitutional issue (clause) and this Amendment.
What is the equal protection clause in the 14th amendment?
These are the five parts of the 5th amendment.
What is due process, eminent domain, double jeopardy, grand juries, self-incrimination?
When a Congressperson secures funding for projects that benefit their district.
What is Pork?
The relationship between 3 government entities to create policies
What is the Iron triangle?
Only one of the five Federalist Papers argues against the Constitution
The creation of one republic will take away from the rights/liberties of the citizens
What is Brutus No. 1?
The court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws, the principle is known as judicial review in this case.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These are the 8th, 9th, and 10th amendments.
8th: What is no excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment?
9th: What are enumerated rights (rights retained by the people)?
10th: What are reserved powers (by the states)?
This is when Congress people exchange votes for proposed legislation.
What is logrolling?
Abolishing and creating agencies is a major check that this branch has on bureaucracy
What is the legislative branch?
This Federalist Paper argued that the judicial branch is the weakest because it relies on other branches to enforce its ruling.
What is Fed. 78?
This case incorporated the Second Amendment.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
These are the five parts to the 6th amendment.
What is a speedy and public trial, impartial jury, informed of nature and cause of accusation, confronted with the witnesses against you, and assistance of counsel for defense?
This brings the end to a filibuster.
What is a cloture?
This Act prohibited civil servants (government workers) from any type of political activity whatsoever --> Can’t campaign, donate, run for office etc.
What is the Hatch Act of 1939?