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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Supreme Court
Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
100
John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life liberty and property?
100
A police officer arrests you without a warrant or probable cause. This is an illegal arrest under the _ Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

What is the 4th Amendment?

100

This U.S. Supreme Court decision that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. 

The parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion was determined to outweigh the state's interest in educating their children.

What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?

100

What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

What is fixing and then replacing the Articles of Confederation?

100
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied the states.
What are reserved powers?
200

System where the states and the federal government divide power. One federal government and 50 states.

What is Federalism?

200

Which branch of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s

What is the U.S. Supreme Court?

200

The __ appoints Federal judges and the ___ confirms the judges.

Who is the President and the Senate?

200

This compromise created a Bicameral legislature that had a House based on Population and a Senate that had 2 Senators per state.

What is the Great Compromise?

200
What branch of government was viewed by the framers of the Constitution as the center of policy making in the United States?
What is Congress?
300
All revenue/money bills must start here.

What is the House of Representatives?

300

This amendment and ___ clause state that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.

What is the 1st amendment establishment clause?

300

In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file this kind brief urging the court to decide the case in their favor.

What is an Amicus Curaie brief?

300
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
400

Political party that believes in higher taxation and more federal government control in order to fund social programs like food stamps and welfare.

What is the Democratic Party?

400

This important piece of 1960s legislation created equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, equal access to public accommodations regardless of race, religion, or national origin and the withholding federal grants-in-aid from state programs that discriminated on the basis of race?

What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

400
Rare court cases, "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party", where only the Supreme Court can hear the case.
What is Supreme Court Original Jurisdiction?
400
Worried that states would not be able to select competent choices to serve as the chief executive in this process electors were selected by states and "directed" by the popular vote to select a president.
What is the electoral college?
400
This concerns states being required to recognize the official documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause.
500

Set of writings by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison that promoted the new U.S. Constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

500

This Amendment establishes Citizenship and makes it clear that no state shall deny to anyone the equal protection of the laws.

What is the 14th Amendment?

500

U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 due to its being outside of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce.

What is U.S. v Lopez?

500
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
500
The Constitution is silent regarding the ability of the national government to establish a draft. However this power is linked to the Article I, section 8 power for congress to "raise an army". This makes the draft what kind of power?
What is an implied power?