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The Constitution
Federalism
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
Bill of Rights
100
This article of the US Constitution discusses the Supremacy Clause.
What is Article VI?
100
These are constitutional powers given exclusively to the Federal Government.
What are exclusive powers?
100
The name for the first ten amendments in the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
A common name given to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
What are the Civil War Amendments?
100
This amendment gives the states all powers not given exclusively to the Federal Government.
What is the 10th Amendment?
200
The branch of government is discussed in Article III of the US Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
This clause gives the Federal Government powers that are not explicitly written in the Constitution.
What is the "Necessary and Proper" Clause?
200
This amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
A common name given to laws that discriminated against African-Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
This amendment protects the "right to remain silent."
What is 5th Amendment?
300
This was an agreement that led to the creation of a bicameral legislature with a Senate and a House of Representatives.
What is the "Great Compromise"?
300
A type of political system in which the national government has all power and controls the lower levels of government.
What is a unitary system?
300
Obscenity and "fighting words" are two forms of speech that are not protected by the freedom of speech. This is the third:
What is libel?
300
In this case the Supreme Court coined the term "separate but equal" and legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This amendment protects all forms of expression.
What is the 1st Amendment?
400
The Americans reacted to the Stamp Act with this famous phrase.
What is "taxation without representation"?
400
The idea that Federal and State Governments should work together.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
400
This clause creates a "wall of separation between church and state."
What is the Establishment Clause?
400
This law prohibits discrimination in public accommodations and in employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
400
This amendment ensures that the government must give "just compensation," or fair payment, for any private property taken for public use.
What is the 5th Amendment?
500
The cosmopolitan vs. parochial (city vs. country) divide at the Constitutional Convention centered on this subject.
What is the strength of the central/federal government?
500
The idea that the states have the right to reject anything that the Federal Government did or said that they believed was wrong.
What is the Compact Theory?
500
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has the right to an abortion because the Bill of Rights ensures this other important right.
What is the right to privacy?
500
The primary purpose of the 19th Amendment.
What is protecting women's right to vote?
500
This amendment, among other things, protects the right to a "speedy and public trial" and the right to legal counsel (attorney).
What is the 6th Amendment?