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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Supreme Court
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Key Constitutional Clauses
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 sources.
What is de facto segregation?
100
The supreme court decision in Bakke v California Board of Regents dealt with?
What is affirmative action or reverse discrimination?
100
This process originates with a draft bill from members of Congress, the Administration or others

What is how a bill becomes a law?

100

This clause gives Congress the power to regulate trade with foreign nations, several states and with Indian tribes.

What is The Commerce Clause?

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 division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the supreme court?
200
The custom of allowing a senator from the president's own party have input on the selection of Federal district court judges.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
200

These are the main sources of revenue for the government.

What is a tax? (Individual, income, corporate, etc.)

200
This clause states that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property...

What is Due Process Clause (14th Amendment)?

300
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
This amendment and what clause states that states 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 process empowers presidents to carry out the law or to administer government and can be challenged in court.

What is an Executive Order?

300

This clause states that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution....are then for the states or the people.

What is the Reserved Powers Clause

400
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.
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

This is the concept to "let the decision stand".

(Judicial Branch)

What is stare decisis?

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
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?
500

The process of declaring only certain, or selected, provisions of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states rather than all of them at once.

What were the Selective Incorporation?

500

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

What are penumbra rights

500

This SC case ruled that evidence illegally obtained would be inadmissible in court.

What is Mapp v. Ohio (1961)?

500

This clause states that Congress cannot pass a law that singles out a person for punishment without trial.

What is the Bill of Attainder Clause?