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Constitution 101
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100
Bill is introduced, assigned to committee, voted on and then sent to the president for approval or veto.
What is how a bill becomes a law?
100
You have the right to a jury trial even if your incarceration could be as little as one day. Based on a pool-hall incident.
What is Gideon v Wainright?
100
We the people
What is popular sovereignty?
100
In 2000, this candidate won the popular vote.
Who is Al Gore?
100
Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.
What is the first amendment?
200
Legislative makes the law, executive, executes the law, and the judicial interprets the law.
What are the three branches and their functions?
200
You have to tell the person you're arresting that they can keep their mouths shut, they have the right to a lawyer, even if they cannot afford one, and that if they cannot afford one, one will be assigned to them.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
200
Powers are distributed to protect agains tyranny.
What is separtion of powers?
200
In 2000, this candidate won the presidency.
Who is George Bush?
200
Freedom from unreasonable search or arrest.
What is the fourth amendment?
300
Running school systems and setting graduation requirements, establishing taxes, holding elections.
What are concurrent powers?
300
The first big Supreme Court case which established that the evaluation of federal laws' constitutionality was a power of the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v Madison?
300
The three branches are interdependent, each with powers, and reliant on each other to get the job done.
What is checks and balances?
300
Author of the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
300
Right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
400
A vote that is taken to end a filibuster.
What is cloture?
400
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
The power to determine whether what the government does is in agreement or accord with the Constitution.
What is judicial review?
400
Wrote in the Federalist Papers, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
Who is James Madison?
400
No double jeopardy or no witness against yourself.
What is the fifth amendment?
500
Vice president, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore.
What is the order of succession to the presidency?
500
The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper 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 the necessary and proper clause?
500
The division of power among a central government and several regional governments.
What is federalism?
500
Wrote, if humans lived in unbridled freemdom, in a 'state of nature,' only people's physical force would keep them safe.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
Right to a jury trial.
What is the seventh amendment?