1st Amendment
This clause of the first amendment prevents the government from endorsing any religion.
What is the establishment clause?
This SCOTUS case incorporated the 2nd Amendment to the states.
What is McDonald v City of Chicago?
This SCOTUS case established that suspects must be made aware of their rights, including protection against self-incrimination.
What is Miranda v Arizona (1966)?
This event led national leaders to believe the Articles of Confederation needed to be amended.
What is Shays Rebellion?
In almost all cases, the Supreme Court serves as this type of court.
What is appellate?
This SCOTUS case established that the state cannot compel parents to send their children to school beyond 8th grade if they have genuine religious objections.
What is Wisconsin v Yoder?
The case that incorporated the 2nd amendment to the states extended from this case in the nation's capital, in which excessive restrictions on gun ownership were considered unconstitutional?
What is DC v Heller?
This SCOTUS case incorporated the right to legal counsel to the states.
What is Gideon v Wainwright?
This clause in the Constitution states that federal law supersedes state law.
What is the supremacy clause?
The authority to draw legislative districts is left to them.
What are state legislatures?
The Supreme Court has ruled that speech can be limited if it reaches certain criteria according to this "test".
What is the clear and present danger test?
In order to issue an arrest, law enforcement needs this which comes from evidence gathered from a warrant.
What is probable cause?
The 6th amendment says you have the right to be informed of the charge being brought against you when arrested, known as this.
What is heabeas corpus?
This type of bill must begin in the House of Representatives, according to the Constitution.
What is revenue (spending, appropriations, taxes, etc)?
This type of committee is temporary and forms when the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill.
What is conference committee?
Freedom of the Press was tested in this SCOTUS case, in which the government tried to prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times v United States (1971)?
This law, passed after 9/11, tested the Bill of Rights in a number of ways, including how the government could obtain evidence (I will accept two answers).
What is the USA Patriot Act or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act?
The 7th amendment says this.
What is you have the right to a jury in civil cases of a certain dollar amount?
This theory of democracy argues that many competing factions create a balance of power and fair representation.
What is pluralism?
The president has the informal power of creating these with foreign leaders which are similar to treaties but do not require Senate approval.
What are executive agreements?
The ability for the government, in some cases, to prevent the publication of certain sensitive material is known as this.
What is prior restraint?
When incorporating the 2nd amendment to the states, the SCOTUS ruled that the 2nd amendment protected this most fundamental freedom.
What is the right to defend yourself?
This principle of the 5th amendment says that the judicial process must be applied to everyone equally.
What is due process?
This Constitutional clauses requires states to recognize all legal documents from other states as valid.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
Social Security and interest on federal debt are an example of this type of budgetary spending.
What is mandatory?
This SCOTUS case held that the government may not compel students to participate in a nondenominational prayer.
What is Engel v Vitale?
This prevents law enforcement from collecting evidence unrelated to the warrant they were issued.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The Supreme Court has ruled against the death penalty as punishment for certain people. These are two of them.
What are the mentally ill, mentally disabled, and people under 18?
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution lists 18 of these.
What are enumerated powers of Congress?
Money given to states specifically for special education programs are an example of this type of federal grant.
What is categorical?