Key Vocab Pt. 1
The vocabulary term used to describe the use of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to decide which portions of the Bill of Rights apply to states.
What is selective incorporation?
The ability for SCOTUS to determine whether or not a law is constitutional.
What is "judicial review"?
The case which determined that if you cannot afford a lawyer, one must be provided for you - even at the state level.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The clause used in most cases involving violations of Civil Rights.
What is the equal protection clause?
Concurrent powers are powers shared by these two levels of government.
What are the state and national government?
The vocabulary term used to describe a legal principle or rule established in a previous court case that can be used as a guide for future cases with similar circumstances.
What is precedent?
The term used to describe the division of powers between the federal and state levels of government.
What is federalism?
The case that established that students' first amendment rights "don't disappear at the schoolhouse gates".
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
What is the 8th Amendment?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States had this many legislative chambers.
What is one? (Unicameral system)
The vocabulary term used to describe the president's ability to speak out and be listened to.
What is the "bully pulpit"?
Marbury v. Madison established this very important principle for the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
The case that put limits on the federal government's use of the necessary and proper (elastic clause) and commerce clause.
What is Lopez v. United States?
The clause that prohibits the national government from promoting or creating a national religion.
What is the establishment clause?
This piece of legislation can be credited as a reason for why the number of African-American congressional members has risen since the 1960s.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The term used to describe the process by which our legislative bodies monitor and supervise government agencies and their activities to ensure accountability, transparency, and adherence to laws and policies
What is oversight?
The vocab term used to describe the 15 Cabinet departments and more than 2,000 agencies, which together employ more than 2.7 million people. Their role is to carry out the functions of the federal government.
What is bureaucracy (federal)?
The SCOTUS case that significantly limited the use of prior restraint by the government.
What is New York Times Co. v United States?
The clause that protects individuals' rights to participate in reasonable religious practices.
What is the free exercise clause?
George Washington warns the American people of "these" in his farewell address after deciding he would not run for a third term.
What are political parties/factions/party factions?