Federalist and Antifederalist Papers
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”
What is Federalist no.10?
Did ___________'s (state name) requirement that all parents send their children to school at least until age 16 violate the First Amendment by criminalizing the conduct of parents who refused to send their children to school for religious reasons?
What is Wisconsin?
What is the 14th?
"Separate but Equal" was deemed legal by the Court in the case of:
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
“It is just as wrong to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
What is the Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
What is Federalist no.51?
Did ____________'s conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his First Amendment right to freedom of speech?
Who is Schenck?
The principle of ____________________ allows the Supreme Court to deem state and federal policies or actions to be unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
“No sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.”
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
“The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.”
What is the Articles of Confederation & Perpetual Union?
“The Judiciary . . . has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.”
What is Federalist no.78?
Does the reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violate the _______________ Clause of the First Amendment?
What is Establishment?
In this case, the Court specified that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment upon the States.
What is McDonald v. Chicago?
The court held, using the _________________________ Clause, that the national government did have the power to create a national bank.
What is Necessary & Proper?
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.”
What is Federalist no.70?
Does a prohibition against the wearing of _______________ in public school, as a form of symbolic protest, violate the students' freedom of speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment?
What are armbands?
In this Sixth Amendment case, the Right to Counsel in criminal cases was extended to felony defendants in state courts.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The Court, in ________________, explored the nature of "political questions" and the appropriateness of Court action in them, holding that legislative apportionment was a constitutional, justiciable issue.
What is Baker v. Carr?
“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows.”
What is Article II of the Constitution?
“It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government.”
What is Brutus no.1?
Did the __________ administration's efforts to prevent the publication of what it termed "classified information" violate the First Amendment?
Who is Nixon?
In this non-required case, the Supreme Court held that the Bill of Rights was a limitation on the national government's powers & the Supreme Court had no authority to apply the Bill of Rights to the states.
What is Barron v. Baltimore?
This case was brought under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause after North Carolina residents challenged the constitutionality of an unusually shaped district, alleging that its only purpose was to secure the election of additional black representatives.
What is Shaw v. Reno?
"No State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
What is Article V of the Constitution?