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Who wrote "Common Sense"?
Who is Thomas Paine
100
The court held that it was consistent with the Constitution to require state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants who could not afford council.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright
100
A system of government in which political power resides with the people
What is Democracy
100
The freedom to bear arms
What is the second amendment
100
A legal member of a state and or country.
What is Citizens
200
Which political philosopher believed in having the natural rights of life, liberty and property?
Who is John Locke
200
Separate but equal is inherently unequal in the context of public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
An economic system in which the government owns the primary means of production (equality and fairness).
What is Socialism
200
The right to fair fines and bail. No cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment
200
The absence of any form of government.
What is Anarachy
300
Who believed the best form of government was one where power was separated into different branches. For example, he approved of the British system, where power was divided between the King, parliament, and courts. His theories formed the basis for the U. S. system of government.
Who is Baron De Montesquieu
300
The court ruled that while the object of the fourteenth amendment was to create absolute equality of the two races before law, such equality extended only so far as political and civil rights, not social rights.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson
300
A system of government in which power resides with the central government.
What is Unitary Government
300
Freedom of Religion
What is first Amendment
300
A group of people in the early United States who favored the establishment of a strong national government and who worked for ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the federalists
400
Who poses stark alternatives: we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue). Otherwise what awaits us is a “state of nature” that closely resembles civil war – a situation of universal insecurity, where all have reason to fear violent death and where rewarding human cooperation is all but impossible.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
400
The first U.S. Supreme Court Case to apply the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison
400
A system of government in which the king or queen shares authority with an elected legislature and agrees to be bound by a constitution or a set of laws.
What is a limited monarchy or constitutional monarchy
400
The right to a speedy and public trial
What is the sixth Amendment
400
A concept that those who govern are bound by the laws; no one is above the law
What is Rule of Law
500
Who believed that man was corrupted by society?
Who is Rousseau
500
Protest of the Vietnam War which caused the supposed denial of the first amendment.
What is Tinker V. Des Moines Independent Community School District
500
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism
500
No military in your home except in war time.
What is third Amendment
500
An implied agreement among the people of an organized society that defines the rights, duties, and limitations of the governed and the government.
What is Social Contract