The Feds
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What is faction?
The Constitution's secret weapon that allows Congress to legally ban segregation in private businesses such as restaurants and hotels.
What is the Commerce Clause?
This Supreme Court Case established that abortion is considered a right under the right to privacy
What is Roe v. Wade?
The case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This President's executive order to nationalize steel mills in times of war was rejected by the Supreme Court.
Who is Harry Truman?
This essay argued that Congress could not be a base for tyranny since its actions were checked by the other branches of government
What is Federalist 51?
The types of powers that are explicitly listed in the Constitution for Congress
What are enumerated powers?
This case establishes that the freedom of speech cannot be violated in schools unless said speech is a "substantial disruption" of student learning.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
The Supreme Court case that established that the Supremacy Clause allows Congress to establish a National Bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The clause at stake in Brown v. Board of Education.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
Wherever two or more persons are engaged in any common enterprise or pursuit, there is always danger of difference of opinion. If it be a public trust or office, in which they are clothed with equal dignity and authority, there is peculiar danger of personal emulation and even animosity.
What is Federalist 70
The amendment that required that Senators be directly elected by the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This case established that the 1990 Gun Free School Zones Act is unconstitutional because it exceeds the power of Congress to legislate under the Commerce clause
What is Lopez v. US
The case that established that Congress has power over the states when it comes to Interstate Commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
A Progressive President who contributed to the expansion of Presidential powers over the economy.
Who is Teddy/William Taft/Woodrow Wilson/FDR?
The Judicial Branch would be the weakest of all three branches of government according to this author.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This article of the Constitution required all states to have an elected legislature.
What is Article 4?
In this case the defendant argued the state's interest in education should not trump the ability of families to exercise their religion freely
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The ideology most associated with a political platform of legalizing drugs, legalizing abortion, and eliminating income taxes.
What is Libertarianism?
Who is Philadelphiensis? (AKA Benjamin Workman)
The Amendment that formally required Presidents to only serve two consecutive terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The Supreme Court Case that established a right to privacy.
What is Griswold v. CT?
The Amendment that clashes with the Supremacy Clause.
The President associated with the "Daisy Ad." (In which a a child is killed by a nuclear attack.)
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?