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6th Amendment
Chapter 10
9th Amendment
Elite Theory & Income Disparity
Supreme Court
100
What the 6th amendment is about
What is criminal prosecutions
100
The Supreme Court is part of this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
This right is commonly considered the right to "___"
What is privacy?
100
"An approach to describing society focusing on the few with power, their values, their behavior, and their demographics."
What is Elite theory?
100
The amount of Supreme Court Justices.
What is 9?
200
Right protected under the 6th amendment
What is the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state?
200
This is the "Supreme Law of the Land."
What is the Constitution?
200
True or False: The 9th Amendment directly states the word "privacy".
What is False?
200
The most elitist institution in U.S government.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The length of a Supreme Court Justice's term.
What is life tenure? (lifelong until they retire, die, are impeached etc.)
300
Amendments pertained to Dr. Jascalevich's case
What is 1st and 6th amendments?
300
The difference between the incomes of the richer and the poorer parts of society.
What is a Income Disparity?
300
Direct language of what rights the 9th Amendment protects.
What is "rights retained by the people?"
300
The few with power are ______ and the many without are the ____
What is elites and masses?
300
The way the Supreme Court is most often divided.
What is into liberal and conservative voting blocs?
400
State Dr. Jascalevich's case took place in
What is New Jersey?
400
______ ______ takes the values of the Founders as expressed in the text of the Constitution and applies them to current conditions.
What is original intent?
400
One topic the 9th Amendment has been used to protect in court cases.
What is abortion, homosexuality/sodomy, contraceptives, assisted suicide...?
400
The places where the income disparity is the highest and the lowest.
What is New York and Utah?
400
John Roberts holds this position on the Supreme Court
What is Chief Justice?
500
Year of Dr. Jascalevich's case
What is 1966?
500
This was the court case in which a woman was denied an abortion in Texas, and it became one of the most controversial cases in court history.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
The year the 9th Amendment was ratified.
What is 1791?
500
Social background most closely associated with the Supreme Court
What is upper class?
500
Term used to describe the blocking of qualified supreme court nominees based on political grounds
What is "bork"?