All the Way to the Supreme Court
Building on previous precedent which created a "right to privacy," this Supreme Court case overturned 46 state laws regulating abortion
Roe v. Wade
Amendment that provides the rights to legal counsel and jury trial
6th Amendment
According to Romans 13:3-4, government is established to do what?
punish evil and reward good
The plan for representation that combined the Virginia and New Jersey Plan and used two houses, one proportionate to state population, the other with two members from each state
The Great Compromise
This is the phrase describing Congress' power to tax, fund government, coin money, and borrow
"power of the purse"
This Supreme Court case, perhaps the worst in history, established that slaves were not citizens but were property and thus could not be taken from their owners just because they lived in a "free state"
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This test established the conditions under which obscene material may be banned: prurient interests, patently offensive, lacking value
Miller test
What is the form of government in which the interests of the people are represented through elected leaders?
republican democracy
This term refers to the ability of the executive to overturn legislative acts
veto
This action is a check by Congress on the executive and judiciary, allowing removal from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
impeachment
This Supreme Court case asserted the implied power of judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
Amendment that provides protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
4th Amendment
"The total complex of relations between people living in society"
politics
Under this method of government, the executive is selected by the legislature
parliamentary system
This asserted power allows the court system to overrule Congressional and executive actions that are unconstitutional
judicial review
This Supreme Court case established the concept of implied powers, allowing the creation of a national bank and denying the right of a state to tax it
McCulloch v. Maryland
Amendment that provides protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy
5th Amendment
The three sources of conflict in American politics
Economic interests, identity politics, and ideology
This compromise established the way in which slaves would be counted for representation and taxation
Three-Fifths Compromise
This clause greatly expands the power of Congress in fulfilling its enumerated powers, often referred to as the elastic clause
the necessary and proper clause
This Supreme Court case further established implied powers, expanding Congress' reach to regulate interstate commerce by striking down a state-granted monopoly to a private steamboat company
Gibbons v. Ogden
This test requires that the state use the least restrictive means when regulating religious practices
Sherbert test
Name the three key ideas necessary for understanding politics
Politics is conflictual, political process matters, politics is everywhere
List the five conflicts/issues that had to be resolved by compromise in the Constitution.
Majority rule vs. minority rights
Small states vs. large states
Legislative power vs. executive power
National power vs. state and local power
Slave states vs. nonslave states
The limit on freedom of the press that allows the government to prohibit the media from publishing certain materials
prior restraint