Do you feel lucky?
John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life liberty and property?
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?
The supreme court decision in Bakke v California Board of Regents dealt with?
What is affirmative action or reverse discrimination?
This plan for national government, written by James Madison, created an executive and legislative branch that would be dominated by larger populated states.
What is the Virginia Plan
These are powers not specifically granted to the national government or denied the states.
What are reserved powers?
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?
Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the supreme court?
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?
This compromise satisfied southern fears that the north would fund the national government with a tax on exports?
What is the slave trade and commerce compromise?
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?
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the exclusionary rule?
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?
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?
This event served as a dramatic example of the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
favor free market solutions; are supportive of prayer in schools; more likely to support military intervention around the world
What is conservative ideology?
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
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?
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?
This concerns states being required to recognize the official documents and civil judgments rendered by the courts of other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause.
The FTC and laws restrict this type of speech, such as advertising, far more extensively
What is commercial speech?
This served as the catalyst for the Gay Liberation Movement?
What were the Stonewall Riots?
Rights not clearly defined but existing in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights. An example being the right to privacy.
What are penumbra rights
He wrote many of the Federalist Papers under the moniker Publius.
Who is James Madison
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?