Supreme Court Cases
This Supreme Court case used the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment as its legal standing.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution prohibits the Federal Government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts being able to receive gifts, titles, or offices from foreign states without the consent of the United States. This Clause is better known as the_____ Clause.
What is the Emoluments Clause?
Programs and authority are clearly divided among national, state, and local government.
What is Dual Federalism?
This specific document written by James Madison advocates for the Separation of Powers in the government, saying “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
What is Federalist no. 51?
Something that helps connect people to the government.
What is a Linkage Institution?
This Supreme Court case established the Separate but Equal doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Commerce Clause says Congress has the power to regulate Commerce among three entities:
with foreign Nations
the States
_____
What are Indian Tribes?
Programs and authority are mixed among the national, state and local government.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
This book written by Thomas Hobbes is an analogy for a strong government and the earliest form of the social contract theory.
What is Leviathan?
The way someone will view and understand the culture and society that they grow up in.
What is Emic?
Ruled in 1919, this Supreme Court case established the Clear and Present Danger Test.
What is Schenk v. United States?
Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water. A letter of Marque allows what action to be taken by a ship?
What is attack/capture other vessels?
Gifts of money from the Federal Government to the States. (Under Cooperative Federalism)
What are Block Grants?
This early court case was the basis for the Freedom of the Press in the Bill of Rights.
What is The Trial of John Peter Zenger?
The way someone will view a culture that they did not grow up in.
What is Etic?
This Supreme Court case decided that private owners could not enforce discriminatory housing policies with the courts.
What is Shelly v. Kramer?
The President shall have the power to make Treaties, provided what fraction of the Senators present concur?
two-thirds
It was about symbolically returning agency to state and local governments through directly sharing revenue from taxes and other sources with state and local governments. DAILY DOUBLE
What is federal revenue sharing?
While considered a failure, the Articles of Confederation achieved this beneficial legislation.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785? or
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This is the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative assembly?
What is a Filibuster?
When Southern states resisted the rulings in Brown v. Board of Education, this Supreme Court case established that states could not nullify Supreme Court rulings.
What is Cooper v. Aaron?
Article 2 specifically concerns this branch of the federal government?
Executive Branch.
Allows the federal government influence over reserved powers and bribes states to enforce national policies.
What are categorical grants?
This Plan was a mutual defense pact between the states established before the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Used to review laws that may violate a fundamental right or classifies /separates people by race, national origin, religion, or alienage.
What is Strict Scrutiny?