Gerrymandering
The act of purposefully drawing voting district boundaries to favor one political party-the legal act of rigging elections.
What is gerrymandering?
Where the minority party decides to try to prevent cloture vote by suing their entire speaking time in the senate to “talk the bill to death”.
What is a filibuster?
“Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several states.”
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
The amendments that “abolished slavery”-and then granted citizenship to “natural-born” citizens.
What are the 13th and 14th Amendments?
The 1954 case that ruled “separate isn’t inherently equal” in education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
When you make it where there are multiple parts of the voting district are split by other districts.
What is cracking?
When the president doesn’t approve of a bill before the ten days allowed to him while Congress isn’t in session-killing the bill.
What is a “pocket veto”.
The clause that established that the Constitution and federal laws supersede state laws/rulings. One part is Constitution over federal, then federal is over state.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The amendment that established the electoral college.
What is the 12th Amendment?
The first case (1819) where a state law was declared unconstitutional and established the Necessary and Proper Clause after a cashier at a bank refused to pay state tax?
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Where you make it so that there is an uneven distribution of population in certain voting districts.
What is packing?
The “Third Step” to getting a bill approved-the committee where the Speaker chooses how long for and in what order bills are debated and voted on.
What is the House Rules Committee?
Requires states to uphold and and honor the laws and rulings of other states, including public acts and records such as marriage license and gun laws?
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
The amendment that decided that the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The 1995 first case in over fifty years where Congress had overstepped the Commerce Clause, and ruled the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1990 as unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause since having a gun at school wouldn’t have a substantial effect on interstate commerce and in fact didn’t have anything to do with commerce.
What is the U.S. v. Lopez?
In charge of drawing the voting lines.
Who is the governor or the county recorder?
After debate is finished in the Senate-where a Conference Committee comprised of members of both House and Senate-the name of what the vote must be taken on in order for the bill to pass.
What is the Conference Report?
The clause that gave stated that “the federal government can prohibit state laws that interfere with business involving more than one state” in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?
What is the Commerce Clause?
The amendments that made it illegal to deny voting rights based on skin color and gender.
What are the 15th and 19th Amendments?
The case questioned whether the pornographic materials could be used against him without a search warrant under the fourth amendment. The court ruled in his favor and set a precedent for fourth amendment rights.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
The case where the Supreme Court decided the courts may decide redistricting cases where lines are drawn illegally.
What was Baker v. Carr?
The “Second Step” of getting a bill approved-the smaller committee in the House or Senate in charge of specific types of legislation.
What is a Standing Committee?
The clause that gave Congress the power to “make laws that are deemed _ for carrying in Execution the foregoing Powers”? Established the implied powers of Congress.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The amendment that gave us the Presidential Succession List.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The case that questioned whether the execution of minors violated the prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" found in the Eighth Amendment and applied to the states through the incorporation doctrine of the 14th Amendment? The Court ruled in favor of it violating the eighth amendment.
What is Roper v. Simmons?