Civil Liberties
The first amendment protects these five liberties.
What are religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
This system elects the president.
What is the electoral college?
The president can reject a law passed by Congress using this power.
What is veto?
What is grown?
This system in the Constitution balances power between state and federal government levels.
What is federalism?
The fourth amendment protects Americans from these.
What are unwarranted search and seizures?
Voters with less education tend to vote more in line with this political ideology?
What are conservatives or Republicans?
What is Congress/the Legislative Branch?
The growth of the powers of the president is largely because of these types of powers claimed to exist in Article II that suggest certain broad responsibilities but don't directly say them.
What are implied powers?
Even though states have some powers, the federal government is given authority over them through this "supreme" clause.
What is the supremacy clause?
The right to petition means this.
What is the right to ask the government to do something or to contact the government about your view on something?
The electoral college provides each state with votes based on its population, but is capped at 538 total votes. Therefore, a president could be elected by winning the electoral vote but losing this vote.
What is the popular vote?
What is...
Impeachment by the House (majority)
Conviction & removal by the Senate (2/3)?
The president has this power to absolve someone of any crime or charge. Scholars have debated recently if the president can use it on himself...
What is pardon?
Article IV of the Constitution deals mostly with these parts of the US government.
What are the states?
The freedom of religion in the first amendment includes these two clauses.
What are the establishment and free exercise clauses?
These require you to have identification to vote in some states.
What are voter ID laws?
This is a power the Congress has to limit the influence of the Supreme Court, but it has only been used once!
What is impeachment of SCOTUS justices?
What is foreign policy or military policy?
Article V deals with this process.
What is the Amendment process?
This case limited free speech in certain cases. Name the case and explain how it limited speech.
Lots of answers.
Shenck v. US, clear and present danger = best example
Allowing people to vote early, vote absentee (when they aren't in their home state on election day), or register on the same day they vote would increase this. However, some criticize these policies, as they could lead to more voter fraud.
Voter turnout
The Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional that is passed by Congress, or declare one of these directives issued by the President unconstitutional in checking the power of the other branches
What is an executive order?
The President can veto a law outright, or he use this kind of a veto, where he simply lets the law expire without a signature.
What is a pocket veto?
The Bill of Rights was added by this founder to appease anti-federalist opponents to the Constitution. Oddly, it has become the best-known part of the Constitution, even thought this individual was much prouder of his work on the rest of it.
Who is James Madison?