Founding
This document, ratified seven years before the Constitution, gave the states more power than the federal government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This constitutional clause was used in Tinker v. DesMoines to allow students to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
What is freedom of speech?
This Amendment has five freedoms - speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.
What is the First?
These two documents are the most central to the founding of the United States.
What is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
This branch can veto a law.
What is the executive?
These 10 Amendments weren't part of the original Constitution ratified in 1788.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What's more important - the state law to go to school or the First Amendment right to practice religion was the subject of this case.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
States can't deny people's right to vote based on this, according to the 15th Amendment.
Twitter, Facebook are allowed to set their own guidelines for speech, separate from the 1st Amendment, because they are not government - they are these.
What are private companies?
Twitter, Facebook are allowed to set their own guidelines for speech, separate from the 1st Amendment, because they are not government - they are these.
What are private companies?
The United States was one of the first to develop this concept, which gave power to the states and the federal government.
What is federalism?
This constitutional clause was used in New York Times v. United States to allow the newspaper to publish sensitive military documents.
What is freedom of the press?
The 10th Amendment states "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" are reserved to these.
What are states?
The Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the Constitution?
Only this part of Congress can start the impeachment of a President.
What is the House of Representatives?
The wisdom or morality of this belonged to the states, not the federal government, said Mr. Rutledge, a delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
What is slavery?
This constitutional clause was used to decide Engel v. Vitale.
What is the freedom of religion establishment clause?
These are the two words commonly used to describe the Fourth Amendment, which restricts police ability to look through homes, or cars.
What is search and seizure?
The power to oversee a police force and education belongs to this entity.
What are the states?
Congress can work hard to make something a law, but this branch can wipe it out by declaring it unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
Article VI of the Constitution reads: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no what shall ever be required?
What is religious test?
The case of the T-shirt was decided not by the Supreme Court but by this federal court.
What is the Court of Appeals, or Circuit Court?
This amendment contains the equal protection clause and the clause which doesn't allow states to restrict civil liberties.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Who are Sanders, Leahy, and Welch?
The president can appoint heads of departments, such as the director of the Department of Defense, or the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, but this entity needs to approve those appointments.
What is the Senate?