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Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
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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 sources.
What is de facto segregation?
100

This ruling established Judicial Review. 

What is Marbury v. Madison? 

100
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
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

This clause states that states Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.

What is the 1st amendment establishment clause?

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

This compromise was reached to create representation in the early US, counting enslaved people as less than 1. 

What is the 2/3's 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
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" was written by this Civil Rights advocate. 

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.? 

300

In a supreme court case, interest groups 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
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

The Supreme Court has this over these rare court cases, "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party". 

What is 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

51 of the 85 essays included in the Federalist papers were written by this Founding Father. 

Who is Alexander Hamilton? 

500
Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the supreme court?
500

These rights are not clearly defined but exist in the "shadow" of formal Constitutional rights, like the right to privacy. 

What are implied rights? 

500

This is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect. 

What is 9? 

500

The Constitution made this official the leader of the Senate. 

Who is the Vice President?