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The Bill of Rights
The Third Branch
Additional Amendments
Landmark Cases
Constitution
100
The First Amendment
What are the freedoms of religion, press, assembly, speech, and petition?
100
The "court of last resort"
What is the United States Supreme Court?
100
1919, Amendment 19
What is women's suffrage?
100
The Plesi v. Fergeson "separate but equal" ruling is a violation of the 14th Amendment.
What is Brown v Board of Education in Topeka?
200
The Supreme Court case "Miranda V. Arizona" was meant to clear up confusion over this amendment.
What is the 5th Amendment?
200
The three levels of federal courts
What are district courts, circuit courts of appeal, and the US Supreme Court?
200
The most recent group of citizens to obtain voting rights.
Who are citizens "18 years of age or older" (Amendment 26, 1971)?
200
This 1803 case, presided over by chief justice Marshall, established the principle of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
200
There are nine members of this branch of government.
What is the SCOTUS?
300
"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 Tenth Amendment?
300
Decisions previously made by courts of appeals and the Supreme court, which appeals court judges are bound to follow.
What is precedent?
300
Equality under the law
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
". . . Although, among the enumerated powers of government, we do not find the word "bank" or "incorporation,"... it may with great reason be contended, that a government, entrusted with such ample powers . . . must also be entrusted with ample means for their execution."
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
300
This article of the US Constitution states that "New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress."
What is the Article IV?
400
Amendment VIII
What is "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"?
400
Judges must release prisoners if they determine there is no constitutional reasons for detainment (i.e. someone has been arrested for no crime, or based on no evidence).
What is the writ of habeus corpus?
400
Slavery is illegal
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
Black citizens are not citizens of the states within which they live. (Hint: 1857)
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
400
This is the subject of Article V of the US Constitution
What is Article V?
500
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people".
What is the Ninth Amendment?
500
This senate committee is responsible for interviewing and questioning SCOTUS nominees before the entire senate votes on whether or not to confirm the candidate.
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee?
500
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration".
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
500
John and Mary Beth wore black armbands to their public school as a symbol of protest against American involvement in the Vietnam War, refused to remove them, and were subsequently suspended. The Supreme Court decided that they had the right to wear the armbands, stating that no one expects students to “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
What is Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969
500
This man was the president of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?