Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Short Answer 1
Short Answer 2
Court Cases
100
Sovereignty
What is a states right to rule itself.
100
Open Primary
What is a primary in which you do not have to declare party in order to vote.
100
To keep the country in order.
What is the propose of government
100
Call out armed forces, negotiate treaties, see that laws are carried out.
What is the roles of the president.
100
Supreme Court case that gave the "Miranda Rights"
What is Miranda v. Arizona
200
Majority Opinion
What is view of the Supreme Court Justices who support a ruling.
200
Express Powers
What is the rules that Congress has to follow in law making. Located in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution
200
Proposed at the National Level. 2/3 members of both house and state.
What is the way an amendment can be proposed
200
3/4 vote of state legislature or 3/4 ratifying convention.
What is the way of ratifying an amendment
200
Used the Plessy case in 1849 to decide ruling.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
300
Judicial Activism
What is people think the Judicial Branch should be more involved with the government.
300
Dissenting Opinion
What is the view of a Supreme Court Justice that disagrees with the majority.
300
No electoral college involved in voting
What is the difference between electing for President and Congress
300
A voluntary organization of lawyers.
What is American BAR Association.
300
Argument between commerce shipping from state to state.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden
400
Supremacy Clause
What is something that states the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
400
Stare Decisis
What is a principle on which new court cases could be modeled in deciding new cases.
400
The vice president is chosen for the party
What is what happens on day 4 of the Nominating Convention
400
Prepares a list of candidates for the Supreme Court.
What is the Attorney General
400
Person was not allowed into school to fill minority quota.
What is Bakke v. Regents.
500
Writs of Certiorari
What is an order from the Supreme Court to a lower court to bring up paper work of a case for review.
500
Pork-Barrel Program
What is a project or grant that chiefly benefits a legislators home district.
500
Has to be proposed, sent to proper standing comittee, debate, read 2nd time (entire floor), sent to other house of congress, congressional committee, sent to president to sign.
What is how a bill becomes a law.
500
listen to recommendations and testimonies of candidates for the Supreme Court.
What is the Senate Judiciary Committee
500
Personal privacy of having a child could have been violated.
What is Roe v. Wade