Where Did That Come From?
The ability to make laws, enforce laws, interpret laws is not combined into one person, but rather divided into different groups - name this.
What is separation of powers?
For the US Constitution, the first step in the amendment process.
What is propose?
The lowest court in Florida, it deals mostly with misdemeanors and trafffic issues.
What is county court?
In the federal government, this has the power to declare war.
What is Congress?
A person hired by an interest group to influence members of Congress to write laws the interest group cares about.
What is a lobbyist?
This is the first set of written laws (both criminal and civil), and their punishments.
What is Code of Hammurabi?
In the state of Florida, the percentage AND the group that has the power to ratify an amendment to the Florida Constitution - BE SPECIFIC AND COMPLETE
What is 60% of registered voters?
The length of time one can remain a federal judge and/or Supreme Court justice.
What is for life, as long as they have good behavior?
Powers that are shared between the federal and state governments (making laws, taxes, establish courts...).
What is concurrent powers?
The event that made the states realize that the government under the Articles of Confederation could not protect its citizens nor their rights.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The agreement between the people and the government; the people agree to give up some of their freedoms and follow government's laws and in exchange government agrees to protect the rights of the people.
What is social contract?
This amendment defines both who can vote and who is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The type of court that the US and the FL Supreme Court are.
What is an appellate court?
The name for laws at the municipal and county level.
What is ordinance?
This document created the first self-government in North America (which now includes the USA).
What is the Mayflower Compact?
No leader, no ability to collect national taxes, no ability to raise an army, no national courts, nearly impossible to amend - all apply to the same thing.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The five freedoms in the 1st amendment.
What is speech, religion, petition, assembly, and press?
The impact of the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright.
What is no person can be denied an attorney if they cannot afford one?
In order - the levels of government that are responsible for (1) collecting garbage, (2) educating its people, (3) providing fire/police responders.
What is (1) local, (2) state, (3) local?
When an interest group does this, it announces what candidate they want to win and therefore what candidate its members should choose.
What is endorse a candidate?
This document was the first to give the right to trial by jury and the right to due process
What is the Magna Carta?
The number of ways there are to amend (1) the US Constitution, and (2) the FL Constitution.
What is (1) two and (2) five?
This landmark case made "separate but equal" and therefore segregation legal, AND then this later landmark case made "separate but equal" in schools illegal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education?
The head of the executive branch at the federal, state, county, and municipal levels (MUST be in the correct order!).
What is president, governor, sheriff, and mayor?
The name for laws made by these levels: (1) federal, (2) states, (3) local.
What is acts, statutes, ordinances?