Constitution
A formal amendment requires:
What is 2/3 vote Congress, 3/4 ratification by states
Attempt to enforce segregation and suppress minority rights in the SOuth
What are Jim Crow Laws
Guaranteed right to vote at 18
What is the 26th amendment
The oldest voters lean to
What is Republican
Regulates media content
What is the FCC
Compromise created a bicameral legislature for the U.S.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise
List of civil liberties
What is the Bill of Rights
3 amendments that address rights of the accused
What are 4, 5, 6, 8, and 14
Voter ID laws make turnout
What is lower
Handles the largest entitlement programs
What is Health and Human Services
Makes an action illegal after you already did it
What is an ex post facto law
Can't discriminate in most hiring and public places
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
3 protections in the 5th amendment
What are due process, grand juries, self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and private property
McCain Feingold Act banned this
What is soft money
Let precedent stand
U.S. and states are as separate as possible (layer cake)
What is dual federalism
1 part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is ended literacy test or more federal oversight on voter registration
Banned poll taxes
What is the 24th amendment
The key to a random sample
What is everyone has the same chance of being called/sampled
What is confirm appt, amend Constitution, impeach, or reorganize the courts
Federalist 78 argues for
What is independent judicial
Protection against mistreatment for a group of people in society
What is a civil right
Gives DC 3 electoral votes
What is the 23rd amendment
2 events that began the decline in voter trust in gov since the 1970s
What are the Vietnam War and Watergate
What is the House