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Acvitist?
Barrel o' surprise
100
The Constitutional basis for the # of Supreme Court Justices
What is none
100
The number of Supreme Court Justices
What is 9
100
The court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas
100
The idea that courts should make as well as interpret the law
What is judicial activist
100
How the Supreme Court protects itself from frontal attacks by Congress
What is its prestige in the nation
200
The Court's chief weapon in the system of checks and balances
What is judical review
200
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts
200
The federal government can pass any laws that are necessary and proper
What is MCulloch v. Maryland
200
Strict constructionist judges are more likely to do this
What is apply rules as clearly stated in the Constitution
200
The strongest type of Supreme Court opinion
What is unanimous opinion (majority was told during review)
300
Between 1789 and the Civil War, the Supreme Court was occupied with these issues
What are trade relations and states rights
300
The president who appointed the largest percentage of minorities to the federal courts
Who is Richard Nixon
300
Set up the precedant of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison
300
Democrats appear to reach more liberal decisions on these type of cases
What are discrimination and criminal prosecution cases
300
The Court's chief weapon in checks and balances
What is judicial review
400
The period in Supreme Court history from 1936 to the present is marked by what?
What are personal liberties
400
They influece the court by being experts in their fields
Who are Amicus Curaie
400
The case that was heard because this man filed as a pauper with no attorney
Who is Clarence Gideon (Gideon v. Wainwright)
400
Appointing only justices who agree with the president's political philosophy
What is court packing
400
Between 1789 and the Civil War, the SC was primarily occupied with these issues
What are trade relations and states rights
500
They influence the court and their decisions
What are amicus curiae
500
The type of liberal justices that Brennan and Marshall were.
What are activists
500
The fourteenth amendent overturned this court case
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
500
A measure of the policy making role of the Supreme Court
What is stare decisis
500
A diversity case involves this
What are citizens of different states