Do you feel lucky?
According to the Social Contract theory, the government's most basic job is to protect these 3 things
What are life liberty and property (pursuit of happiness)?
This is the type of segregation 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 that stated Affirmative Action, in and of itself, was not unconstitutional but that race cannot be a major factor in it's implementation.
What is Bakke v California Board of Regents?
The constitutional principle that there are limits on what the government can do, achieved through a written constitution that defines the government's powers and protects individual rights.
What is limited government?
When the states and the federal government exercise their powers separately, in their own areas of jurisdiction and legitimate concern.
What is Dual Federalism?
This amendment and what clause states that "Congress shall make no law respecting the ___________of religion."
What is the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment?
In a case regarding abortion, interest groups such as Right to Life and Planned Parenthood file these in an attempt to influence the court to rule in their favor
What is an amicus curiae brief?
This compromise satisfied southern delegates' fears that the north would dominate politics in Congress if the Constitution were to be ratified.
What is the 3/5ths 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 legal doctrine.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The branch of government most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s.
What is the judicial branch (SCOTUS)?
The judicial branch's MAIN constraint or check that exists within itself (main intra-court restraint).
What is an stare decisis?
One month ago, Abigail performed an action that was not a crime then, but is now being punished for that action because it has since become illegal. This scenario was made illegal in Article 1 (sections 9 & 10) of the U.S. Constitution.
What is ex post facto law?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment that put the election of senators directly in the hands of the electorate.
What is the 17th amendment?
A conservative movement designed to return more power, and control of money, to the states.
What is Devolution?
This important piece of 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 Civil Rights Act of 1964?
SCOTUS can conduct trials "affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party".
What is Supreme Court Original Jurisdiction?
Created under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the US Constitution to avoid a headstrong “democratic mob” steering the country astray.
What is the electoral college?
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.
When the presidential candidate picks a VP candidate that is in many ways different than himself in order to appeal to as many voters as possible.
Examples: Geography, Age, Experience, Gender, etc.
What is balancing the ticket?
A movement that emerged in the 1960s & included the fight for fair pay and working conditions to those who worked on farms, while seeking to remove barriers in education for immigrants and Hispanics/Latinos.
What is the Chicano Movement?
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 amendment was proposed by James Madison and not ratified until 1992, over 200 years after it was first proposed.
What is the 27th Amendment.
The most recent amendment (28th), which was never ratified.
What is the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?