The amendment that limits presidents to two terms.
What is the Twenty Second Amendment?
100
The act that established the basic three tiered structure of the American court system.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
100
1786 rebellion in which an army of 1,500 disgruntled and angry farmers marched to Springfield, Massachusetts, and forcibly restrained the state court from foreclosing mortgages on their farms.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
100
Limitation on expression before that expression occurs.
What is prior restraint?
200
The process of redrawing congressional districts to reflect increases or decreases in seats allotted to the states, as well as population shifts within a state.
What is redistricting?
200
The law case that ruled that there is no overriding executive privilege that extends to court orders.
What is U.S. v. Nixon?
200
Courts that review decisions of lower courts.
What are Appellate courts?
200
A plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention. Under this plan, representation in a unicameral legislature would be the same regardless of size or population.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
Racial segregation that is a direct result of law or official policy.
What is de jure discrimination?
300
Key member who keeps close contact with all members of his of her party and takes vote counts on key legislation, prepares summaries of bills, and in general acts as a communications link within a party.
What is the whip?
300
The act that limits the amount of time troops can be deployed without the permission of Congress.
What is the War Powers Act?
300
Courts established by Congress for specialized purposes.
What are legislative courts?
300
The main three authors of The Federalist Papers.
Who are John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton?
300
The procedure that can end a filibuster.
What is cloture?
400
The official chair of the Senate
What is the president pro tempore?
400
Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the constitution.
What are inherent powers?
400
Reliance on past decisions or precedents to formulate decisions in new cases
What is stare decisis?
400
The clause contained in Article 4 of the constitution which mandates states to honor the laws and judicial proceedings of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
400
Petition that gives a majority of the House of Representatives the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction.
What is a discharge petition?
500
Funds that an appropriations bill designates for specific projects within a state or congressional district.
What is earmark?
500
The President who exerted the role of the executive in foreign affairs, established the cabinet system, and claimed the inherent powers of the presidency.
Who is George Washington?
500
A request for the Supreme Court to order up the records from a lower court to review the case.
What is the writ of certiorari?
500
An agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed.
What is a social contract?
500
A shifting of party coalition groupings in the electorate that remains in place for several elections.