Supreme Court Cases
This is case involved the situation of the midnight judges.
What is Marbury v Madison?
This Cabinet Department was created in 2002.
What is the Dept. of Homeland Security?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to appease these early critics of the Constitution.
Who are Antifederalists?
The holding in this 1964 case describes the warning that police must give to arrested persons.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
This is the process by which background traits influence one’s political views.
What is political socialization?
This case established the “clear and present danger” test
What is Shenck v US?
Amtrak is this type of agency.
What is a government corporation?
If a person is charged with a crime in one state flees to another, this procedure is used to return the fugitive to the state that wants him/her.
What is extradition?
Texas v Johnson 1989 found that there may not be a law against this.
What is flag burning?
Great Society programs were introduced by this president.
Who is LBJ?
This case outlawed gerrymandering based on race
What is Shaw v Reno?
The IRS belongs to this executive department.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
Before it’s admitted to the Union, a new state needs the permission of this branch of government.
What is Congress?
Miller v California (1973) defined this as “appealing to prurient interests of an average person”
What is obscenity?
This extremely large interest group typically lobbies against cuts to Society Security and Medicare.
What is the AARP?
This important 1970s-era case is based on the right to privacy founded in the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Roe v Wade?
This office is responsible for producing the President's Budget and measuring the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures to see if they comply with the president's policies.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
A marriage license issued in one state must be recognized in another due to this clause of the Constitution.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
Gitlow v New York (1925) found that this amendment applies to the states.
What is the First Amendment?
This guy is credited with developing modern polling techniques in the 1930s
Who is George Gallup?
This 1962 case established that there may not be a prayer in public schools.
What is Engel v Vitale?
The principal mission of this regulatory agency is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
Defining crimes and setting punishments is this kind of power under the Constitution.
What is a concurrent power?
Mapp v Ohio 1961 was an important precursor to this 1964 case that involved Sixth Amendment rights.
What is Gideon v Wainright?
This political ideology has greater faith in the free market than others
What is conservativism (or libertarianism)?