The Constitution & Government Basics
This system allows each branch to stop or limit the actions of the others—such as the president vetoing a bill.
What are Checks and Balances?
This party generally wants less business regulation.
Who are the Republicans?
The President’s right to keep some communications secret.
What is executive privilege?
This person/group nominates SCOTUS judges, and this person/group approves the nominations
Who is the President? Who is the Senate?
This Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, which legalized segregation through "separate but equal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This structure divides power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This party trusts government to solve problems more than the other.
Who are the Democrats?
Impeachment begins in this chamber and trials occur in this one.
What are the House (charges) and the Senate (trial)?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
What was the main issue in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark?
What is citizenship?
Members of the House serve this many years; Senators serve this many.
What are 2 years and 6 years?
The NRA, ACLU, Sierra Club, and AARP are all examples of these.
What are interest groups?
Name two presidents who have been impeached.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (twice)?
The power to strike down laws as unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This rule says that evidence obtained illegally by police cannot be used in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?
The leader behind the 9/11 attacks.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
This committee works out differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
A state’s number of electoral votes is based on its number of these two groups.
What are Representatives and Senators?
This method of interpreting the Constitution holds that judges should apply the text as it was understood at the time it was written, without adapting it to modern circumstances.
What is originalism?
This is the legal principle of following previous court decisions.
What is precedent?
Which constitutional principle allows federal courts to strike down state laws that conflict with federal authority?
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Under what constitutional clause does Congress justify most of its implied powers?
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The process of reallocating House seats among states after the Census.
What is reapportionment?
Name two current justices of the United States Supreme Court.
Who is: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson
What are three parts of the 14th amendment that Ms. Bellas said were significant?
What is the Citizenship Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause?