The Constitution
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
In a federal system, power is shared between these two governments.
What are the national and state governments?
The First Amendment protects the freedom of ____, ____, ____, ____, and ____.
What is speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?
This is the capital city of California.
What is 18?
This principle means that government power is divided between different branches to prevent any one from becoming too powerful.
What is separation of powers?
This government in Federalism can declare war and print money.
What are federal/national powers?
Police must tell you that you have the right to remain silent. This is called your ____ rights?
What are Miranda rights?
The leader of California's state government is called this.
What is the Governor?
The group that formally elects the U.S. President.
What is the Electoral College?
These are the three branches of the U.S. government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches?
Both federal and state governments can do this to raise money.
What is collect taxes?
This court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
California's state legislature consists of these two chambers.
What are the State Assembly and State Senate?
These are elections in which voters decide which candidate will represent a political party in the general election.
What are primary elections?
This Constitutional system divides power between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
The Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland established this type of power that Congress holds beyond those explicitly listed.
What are implied powers?
This clause of the First Amendment states that government may not create and support an official state religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
These are the three levels of the California court system, from lowest to highest.
What are the Superior, Appellate, and Supreme courts?
This act, passed in 1965, aimed to eliminate racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
The beginning of the Constitution is called this and explains the purpose of the document. (Hint: Starts with "We the People...")
What is the Preamble?
This clause in the Constitution asserts that federal law is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The right to a fair trial and a lawyer is part of this amendment.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This process allows California voters to propose and vote directly on laws.
What is the initiative process?
This is the model of voting that happens when voters base their decisions on how they feel the government or candidate has performed in the past.
What is retrospective voting?