Court Room Drama
This case incorporated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unwarranted search and seizure.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
This clause says that the US Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This refers to the process by which people develop their political beliefs.
What is political socialization?
This is deliberately drawing a Congressional district to favor one party over the other.
What is gerrymandering?
This is an example of a successful political movement because it got people elected to office under its name.
What is the Tea Party?
This case laid the groundwork for a right to privacy and involved a married couple seeking contraception.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
This is the clause that prevents the government from declaring a national religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This is something that it is easy to have an opinion on.
What is a salient issue?
These exist to get candidates elected to office under a shared label.
What is a political party?
This refers to interest groups that secures mostly private goods and lobbies on behalf of certain professional groups.
What is an economic group?
This case said that it was legal to place some limits on the right to abortion.
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
This clause allows for people to practice their own religious beliefs so long as they do not harm others.
These are specific protections found within the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
What are civil liberties?
This type of electoral system keeps third parties from being able to win representation in Congress.
What is single member district/winner-take-all system?
This refers to the interconnected nature of Congress, lobbyists, and the bureaucracy.
What is an Iron Triangle?
This case created the test to determine if government aid to a religious organization could be allowed.
What is Lemon v. Kurtzman?
This clause says that Congress and the Federal government have the final say over trade between the states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Clause/Commere Clause?
This is the type of voting most people use when going to the polls and refers to judging politicians on past actions.
What is retrospective voting?
This refers to someone voting only for one political party on a election ballot.
What is straight ticket voting?
These may not coordinate with political campaigns but have no limit on what they can spend in a given election.
What are SuperPACs?
This case incorporated the Sixth Amendment's right to an attorney to all criminal defendants, regardless of the ability to pay.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This clause says that Congress can make all laws that it must to carry out the duties it was given in the US Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
This is when a population shift occurs and causes a state to have the wrong number of members in the House of Representatives.
What is malapportionment?
This type of primary does not require someone to be registered with a given political party to vote.
What is an open primary?
The loss of these has generally contributed to the decline of power of political parties.
What are patronage jobs?