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This Amendment ensured that the states would retain certain powers.
What is the 10th Amendment?
100
These are not constitutionally protected.
What are local governments?
100
These have been greatly expanded through America's history.
What are Civil Liberties?
100
These were the origins of US Law.
What are Common Law, Precedent, and Stare Decisis?
100
These are the two forms of sexual harassment.
What are quid pro quo and hostile workplace?
200
These powers are shared between the state and federal governments.
What are concurrent powers?
200
This rule dictates that localities are products of state governments.
What is Dillon's Rule?
200
This faction pushed for the Bill of Rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
200
This is the term for the Supreme Court accepting a case.
What is a writ of certiorari?
200
These three Amendments were the Civil War Amendments.
What are 13, 14, and 15?
300
This state executive can call the legislative body into session.
Who is the governor?
300
This is civic engagement at the local level.
What is grassroots activism?
300
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Petition, Freedom of Religion.
What are First Amendment guarantees?
300
These are the 4 types of Supreme Court of opinions.
What are unanimous, majority, concurring, and dissenting?
300
This is an implied right.
What is the Right to Privacy?
400
This type of legislature has a small or nonexistent staff.
What is a non-professional legislature?
400
1868
What year was Dillon's Rule instituted in?
400
This court case stated that speech must create a "clear and present danger" to be regulated.
What is Schenck v. US?
400
A form of judicial interpretation in which the SCOTUS tries to change the meaning of the Constitution.
What is Judicial Activism?
400
These Amendments cover the rights of the accused.
What are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments?
500
There are 5 steps in this process.
What is the process of passing a bill?
500
Localities are typically led by this official.
Who is the mayor?
500
This protected form of speech does not use words.
What is symbolic speech?
500
This is the strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What is Judicial Restraint?
500
This proposed CIA operation was rejected by President Kennedy because it would have required indiscriminate killings of American citizens.
What was Operation Northwood?