Congress
Federalist 10, 51
Mcculloch v. Maryland
US v. Lopez
100

This chamber of Congress has the power to introduce revenue bills.

What is the House of Representatives?

100

He wrote Federalist 51 and Federalist 10.

Who is James Madison?

100

In Mcculloch v. Maryland, this was the central issue being decided. 

What was the constitutionality of the creation of a national bank and whether a state could tax it?

100

In this year was the Supreme Court case US v. Lopez decided. 

What is 1995?

200

This is the term for the drawing of legislative district boundaries in a way that gives an electoral advantage to a political party. 

What is Gerrymandering?

200

Federalist 10 addresses the dangers of this political phenomenon. 

What is Factionalism?

200

This state was attempting to tax the Bank of the United States in McCulloch v. Maryland. 

What is Maryland?

200

This was the central issue at stake in US v. Lopez.

What is the constitutionality of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990?

300

This is the term for the practice of speaking for long periods to delay or prevent a vote on a bill.

What is filibustering?

300

According to Federalist 51, this is the primary purpose of government.

What is protecting the rights of citizens and preventing tyranny?

300

This was the broader significance of McCulloch v. Maryland beyond the specific case.

Affirmed the constitutionality of a broader interpretation of federal powers, by the Necessary and Proper Clause.

300

This clause of the Constitution was at the center of the court's decision in US v. Lopez.

What is the Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8)?

400

This is the minimum age requirement for being in the US Senate.

What is 30?

400

Federalist 51 Advocates for the division of power and implementation of these toprevent abuse from the government.

What are checks and balances?

400

This was the outcome of McCulloch v. Maryland for the national bank.

The Supreme Court ruled that the creation of the national bank was constitutional and that Maryland's attempt to tax it was unconstitutional.

400

This is how the Supreme Court ruled in US v. Lopez.

What is the Court ruled that the Gun-Free School Zones Act exceeded Congress's power under the Commerce Clause?

500

This chamber of Congress has the power to ratify treaties negotiated by the president.

What is the Senate?

500

According to Federalist 10, this is the main cause of factions.

Unequal distribution of property or wealth?

500

This constitutional principle in McCulloch v. Maryland helped establish implied powers.

It established the principle of implied powers, allowing congress to take actions necessary and proper to carry out enumerated powers.

500

He was the Chief Justice of the United States at the time of the US .v Lopez decision. 

Who is William Rehnquist?