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Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
The Supreme Court
Civil Liberties
100
John Locke's three basic rights that must be protected by government.
What are life liberty and property?
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?
100
The supreme court decision in Bakke v California Board of Regents dealt with?
What is affirmative action or reverse discrimination?
100
this act requires employers and administrators of public facilities to make "reasonable accommodations" and prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
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 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?
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?
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
Which division of government was most responsible for expanding the rights of accused criminals during the 1960s
What is the Supreme Court
300
The Supreme Court case of Mapp v Ohio established this important 4th amendment process.
What is the exclusionary rule?
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.
13th amendment
300
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?
300
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?
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 devolution.
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.
400
according to the Court, the police had no probable cause to search this defendant's house thus reinforcing the exclusionary rule
What is Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
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
500
The name used by Alexander Hamilton as a pseudonym for the Federalist Papers essays, derived from the name of a famous Roman consul.
What is Publius?
500
Nine of the thirteen states.
What is the number of states that needed to ratify the constitution in order for it to take effect.
500
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?
500
the Court ruled that funding one's own election is a protected form of free speech
What is Buckley v. Valeo (1974)?
500
this goal of NOW was to pass this amendment (which did not pass) which would have women "equal" to men
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?