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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

This is the type of segregation seen in the North, which is not caused by laws; rather it is the result of residential segregation, preferred living patterns, and informal social norms.

What is de facto segregation?

100

Citizens United v. FEC and Wisconsin v. Yoder dealt with this Constitutional amendment.

What is the 1st amendment?

100

This resolved the conflict between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.

What is the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise?

100
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied the states.
What are reserved powers?
200
Allowing the states and the federal government to exercise power separately in areas of legitimate concern to them characterize this form of federalism.
What is Dual Federalism?
200

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

What is the supreme court?

200

This is required for the senate to confirm a nominee to the Supreme Court.

What is a simple majority?
200

This compromise called for representation in the House of Representatives to be apportioned on the basis of a state’s free population plus _______ of its enslaved population.

What is the Three-fifths 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

Despite the founders arguments of equality, this foundational document refers to Native Americans as "merciless Indian Savages".

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

This amendment and clause states 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 of brief urging the court to decide the case in their favor.

What is an Amicus Curaie brief?

300

This was required to pass amendments to the Articles of Confederation.

What is unanimous support?

300
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
400
The name used by Alexander Hamilton as a pseudonym for the Federalist Papers essays, derived from the name of a famous Roman consul.
What is Publius?
400

This served as the catalyst for the Gay Liberation Movement.

What were the Stonewall Riots?

400

Rights not clearly defined but existing in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights. An example being the right to privacy.

What are penumbra rights

400
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
400
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?
500
A conservative movement designed to return more power and control of money to the states. The term was coined during the Nixon presidency.
What is New Federalism.
500

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?

500
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?
500
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?
500
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.