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This is the idea that people accused of a crime have certain legal rights and protections. It basically means the government must follow its own rules when it deals with a citizen.
What is due process?
100
The Framers did this to the government to keep any one group, or branch of government, from gaining too much power.
What is break the government up into branches/separation of powers/separate the government into branches?
100
When the president writes a treaty with a foreign country, the Senate has to approve them. What philosophy or idea is this an example of?
What is checks and balances?
100
Creating laws is the main job of this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
100
These are the powers of the national government specifically listed in the Constitution; also called the expressed powers.
What are enumerated powers?
200
This is the right of a person to be brought before a judge to hear the charges against them. It protects people accused of a crime from being held indefinitely in jail without knowing what they're being charged with. It literally translates from Latin to English as "you shall have the body."
What is habeas corpus?
200
The first words of the Constitution indicate that power and authority in our system of government come from whom or what?
Who are the people?
200
The decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803) strengthened the power of the Supreme Court by giving the courts the power of judicial review, or the power to declare acts of Congress this "un" word.
What is unconstitutional?
200
Carrying out the laws is the job of this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
200
These are the powers of Congress NOT specifically listed in the Constitution that Congress has anyways to carry out the expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
300
This concept means the right of the courts to declare laws and acts of Congress unconstitutional. It was given to the courts by the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison.
What is judicial review?
300
A defining characteristic of a federal system of government is that power is divided and shared between these two bodies, or levels, of government.
What is the central government and regional governments/national and state governments/some combination of those?
300
The process of amending the Constitution involves both Congress and these.
What are the states?
300
Deciding if the laws are constitutional or unconstitutional, and deciding what the laws mean, is the job of this branch of government.
What is the judicial branch?
300
There are two names given to the sentence/phrase in the Constitution that creates the implied powers of Congress. Name one of those names.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause/Elastic Clause?
400
This refers to the government right to take property away from a citizen for public use, as long as the citizen is offered fair compensation (fair market value) for the property. This protection is found in the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is eminent domain?
400
The following is a list of groups of people in America. -African Americans - Women - Residents of the District of Columbia - 18-year-olds Over time, what right has been extended to these people through constitutional amendments?
What is the right to vote in elections?
400
This term refers to setting restrictions on the power of government, usually through a written or unwritten constitution.
What is limited government?
400
This goal of the Preamble means to keep freedom and liberty alive in America for all future generations.
What is "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?"
400
What part of the Constitution may NOT be amended?
What is "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate?"
500
This part of the Constitution lists the purpose to be served by the Constitution and by the U.S. government. It consists of 6 goals that the United States government shall strive to meet.
What is the Preamble of the Constitution?
500
The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution indicates how to solve conflicts between these two types of laws.
What are federal and state/local laws?
500
The Supreme Court case United States v. Nixon ruled against President Richard Nixon, who argued that he had executive privilege as President of the United States to keep certain White House documents and tape recordings private. This court case established that nobody in America, not even the President of the United States, is this.
What is above the law?
500
This term refers to a representative political system in which authority comes from the people and is exercised by elected officials.
What is republicanism/a republican form of government/representative democracy/a republic?
500
Delegates powers are powers granted to the national government rather than to the states under the U.S. Constitution. Reserved powers are powers kept by the states under the U.S. Constitution. What is the term for powers shared between the states and the national government?
What is concurrent powers?