This refers to the total money owed by the federal government due to past borrowing.
What is national debt?
100
Congress cannot establish an “official” religion. This, in effect, provides for the separation of church and state.
What is the establishment clause?
100
This allows Congress to regulate Indian commerce.
What is the commerce clause?
100
This clause protects you from illegal search and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment search and seizure clause?
200
This term refers to support from both political parties.
What is bipartisanship?
200
A person cannot be punished for something he/she did that was not a crime when committed.
What is ex post facto?
200
This clause of the constitution says that all states must follow fair procedures when denying a person life, liberty, or property.
What is the due process clause of the 5th amendment?
200
This prohibits Congress from creating legislation that ban freedom of worship.
What is the Free Exercise clause?
300
This term refers to the Federal Reserve Board's regulation to the money circulation.
What is monetary policy?
300
A state must recognize that validity of the public acts, records, and court decisions of other states. For example, a state must recognize as valid the birth certificate issued by another state.
What is full faith and credit clause?
300
No private property shall be taken for public use without just compensation.
What is the takings clause?
300
This clause gives federal law more power over state law.
What is the Supremacy clause?
400
Social Security is this type of required federal benefit payments.
What is entitlements or uncontrollables?
400
No state can interfere with the execution of contracts.
What is the contracts clause?
400
An accused person who flees to another state must be returned to the state in which he/she allegedly committed the crime
What is the extradition clause?
400
This term refers to a federal financial aid to individuals or companies.
What are subsidies?
500
This is the federal government's practice of spending more money than it takes in as revenues.
What is deficit spending?
500
This introduction to the Constitution identifies its broad purposes
What is the preamble?
500
This constitutional clause states that a state cannot unreasonably discriminate against a person from a different state.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
500
This requires individuals to prove that they have a need for federal benefits.