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Signed in 1941, this executive order interned thousands of Japanese Americans across the U.S.A., ignoring the 5th and 14th Amendments.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This Supreme Court case used the necessary and proper clause to rule in Congress's favor when a state tried to tax a federal bank
What is McCulloch v. Maryland? - Congress has implied powers as a part of the necessary and proper clause
This so-called “fourth branch of government” serves the purpose of what?
What is carrying out the day-to-day work of the federal government?
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution delegates the power to regulate trade within the states to this branch of the federal government
What is the Legislative branch?
What amendment did Woodrow Wilson’s sedition and Espionage Acts violate?
What is the 1st amendment, taking away free press and speech?
In this Supreme Court case, it was ruled that the president cannot seize steel mills without congressional approval
What is Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer? - Harry Truman, in an attempt to continue the Korean War, tried to seize an Ohio steel mill to aid the U.S. war machine.
The Pendleton Act helped reform the “spoils system,” in which the president appointed bureaucrats by awarding jobs based on this
What is merit-based civil service?
In 1942, this Supreme Court case ruled that a farmer's wheat crop was subject to interstate commerce, even if the wheat crop was to be kept for personal use
What is Wickard v. Filburn?
Unilaterally suspended by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 with the intent of imprisoning Confederate sympathizers without cause or due process
What is Article I of the Constitution - the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
To save his reputation and presidency, Richard Nixon claimed in United States v. Nixon that he had a privilege over the people and government.
What is “Absolute executive privilege”?
Following a stream of executive orders, this president, through DOGE, decreased the government’s bureaucratic oversight, but increased executive power?
Who is Donald Trump?
Signed by FDR as part of the New Deal, the National Labor Relations Act increased the government’s authority over the economy through what clause?
What is the Commerce Clause?
Put into action shortly after 9/11, the patriot act allowed George W. Bush to exert broad power over the people of the U.S. The Yoo Memo, allowing for more aggressive interrogation methods, violated what two parts of the Constitution
What are the Supremacy Clause and Due Process Clause?
In 2004, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld limited the Patriot Act and George W. Bush’s powers by denying the government the ability to detain U.S. Citizens as enemy combatants due to what clause?
What is the Due process clause?
The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to prevent what type of event from happening?
What is the Great Depression? - Investors and other finance professionals dislike the SEC for its oversight and demanding reporting of rules and regulations
This Supreme Court case ruled that Congress had gone too far in citing the commerce clause for power by banning guns near schools
What is U.S. v. Lopez?
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that this government agency was/is collecting and monitoring the metadata of millions, as allowed by Section 215 of the Patriot Act
What is the National Security Agency?
This controversial practice involves secret detention and harsh interrogation of criminals, which was a part of the Patriot Act, allowed the government to tiptoe around Habeas Corpus and Due process
What is “Extraordinary Rendition”?
The three original departments of the “Fourth Branch”
What are the State, Treasury, and War departments?
In 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, which required many Americans to purchase government-sponsored insurance. The Supreme Court case National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius upheld the act, citing what?
What is the commerce clause, and Congress’s ability to raise taxes?