Clauses and Compromises
Compromise that drew a line at the Southern boundary of _________ stating that states added above the line would be free states and states below it would be slave states.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
The age and number of years you have to be a citizen to be a senator.
30 years old
Citizen of the U.S. for at least 9 years
This steamboat case was all about the Commerce clause.
What is GIBBONS V. OGDEN
Which Supreme Court case supported the idea that races can be "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson( 1896)
Right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the 4th?
The Contract Clause is located in: A. Article III B. Article I C. Tenth Amendment D. Fifth Amendment
B. Article I
Last state that ratified the Constitution
New Hampshire
This was Lincoln's goal after the Civil War.
Unify the states
Case that solidified the implied powers of the Necessary and Proper clasue
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819)?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th?
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be ____________ for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
What is Necessary and Proper?
85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
What are THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
Tis political party was not sympathetic to native Americans and opposed the abolition of slavery.
What are Democrats?
This case established Judicial Review
What is MARBURY V. MADISON (1803)?
The right of citizens to vote will not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th?
This compromise combined the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan
What is the Great Compromise?
First date the SCOTUS started and first date they actually opened
February 1, 1790
February 2, 1790
Reconstruction era case that would be used in future civil rights cases that stated that even if the law is impartial on its face it can still be unjust and have illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances.
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
One holding of this case was that free blacks in the North could never be considered citizens of the United States based on the constitution, and thus were barred from the federal courts
Dred scott v. Sanford (1857)
Election of president and vice president; if no majority, election occurs in the House of Representatives
What is the 12th?
This clause forces a state to govern impartially—not draw distinctions between individuals solely on differences that are irrelevant to a legitimate governmental objective.
What is the equal protection clause?
Length of time the Slave Trade Clause from
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 9 lasted
20 years
Second longest tenure of any chief judge and wrote the opinion for Dred Scott
Chief Justice #5: Roger Taney
(1836-1864)
After the Colfax Massacre, the bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction, the decision of this case effectively quashed the equal protection clause and the Reconstruction efforts were stifled.
United States. V. Cruikshanks
(1876)
Guarantees (1) “procedural due process;” (2) the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights, “incorporated” against the states; and (3) “substantive due process.”
What is the 14th?