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This philosophy of government's main purpose is to protect individual rights.
What is a natural rights theory of government?
100
The Supreme Court's power to declare the meaning of the US Constitution.
What is judicial review?
100
The leaders of the civil rights movement were significantly aided by the Constitution's protection of what?
What is freedom to assemble and petition?
100
A legislature divided into 2 houses, such as the US Congress and most state legislatures.
What is bicameral legislation?
100
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
What is ISIS?
200
In the debate over representation in Congress, this plan advocated representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
First 10 Amendments written to satiate Anti-Federalists. They define basic liberties and rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
In an effort to reserve powers not specifically stated in the Constitution to the states or to the people.
What is the reason for including the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights?
200
Commander in chief, treaties (2/3 Senate), nominate ambassadors (majority Senate), receive ambassadors of other nations (diplomatic recognition)
What are the powers of the president?
200
A policy designed to give special compensation to a previously disadvantaged group.
What is affirmative action?
300
George Mason and other Anti-Federalists believed it should not be ratified unless there was a Bill of Rights included.
What is the most persuasive argument against the Constitution?
300
There are 27
What is the number of Amendments to the US Constitution?
300
This part of this amendment has been used to extend protections of the Bill of Rights.
What is the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
300
This clause allowed the scope of the national government's authority to grow significantly and is due to a Supreme Court interpretation.
What is the Commerce Clause?
300
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states
What is Federalism?
400
The Founders looked to systems of government in Europe when determining how to structure the US government. A french philosopher is credited with creating a system of division between the monarch and the two houses of Parliament.
Who is Baron De Montesquieu?
400
Amendment that extended suffrage to those aged 18-21.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
400
It requires a general warrant to be issued before a search or seizure.
What is the privacy protections offered by the Fourth Amendment?
400
The part of the Constitution that permits Congress to make any laws "necessary and proper" to carrying out its powers
What is the elastic clause?
400
The total number of Electoral College votes.
What is 538?
500
His famous work Leviathan argued that if humans were left to their own devices, chaos and violence would ensue. In a state of nature, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." He argued that the best way to protect life was to give total power to an absolute monarch.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
A judicial philosophy in which judges make bold policy decisions, even charting new constitutional ground. Advocates of this approach emphasize that the courts can correct pressing needs, especially those unmet by the majoritarian political process.
What is judicial activism?
500
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
What is the Third Amendment?
500
Powers of government that go beyond their enumerated powers. Generally supported by the elastic clause.
What are implied powers?
500
A system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government.
What is a bureaucracy?