Cabinet Positions
Secretary of Transportation?
Pete Buttigieg
Gibbons v. Ogden?
Huge expansion of implied powers in the commerce clause
Name of democratic political machine which dominated 20th century Virginia politics
Byrd Machine
Who is the father of the constitution?
James Madison
First Supreme Court justice?
John Marshall
Secretary of State?
Antony Blinken
Dredd Scott v. Sandford?
the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
Who won the only US election decided by the house of representatives? When?
What were and who wrote essays supporting the constitutions ratification?
The Federalist papers- Hamilton, Jay, Madison
Known as the great compromiser, seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844.
Henry Clay
Attorney General?
Merrick Garland
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion.
In which state was the election of 2000 decided
Florida
George Mason wanted what to be added to the constitution?
Bill of Rights
Oversaw the reconstruction era as president, Lincolns vice president
Andrew Johnson
Secretary of the treasury?
Janet Yellen
Barron v. Baltimore?
the Bill of Rights did not apply to the state governments, establishing a precedent until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Barron v Baltimore is also significant for highlighting the separation between federal government and state government.
The practice- supported by Reagan in the 1980s- of returning federal powers to the states is known as?
Devolution
Explain the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
New Jersey Plan
unicameral Congress with equal representation for each state. The plan retained more authority for the states.
Virginia Plan
bicameral Congress with proportional representation for each state. The plan favored a stronger national government.
Alabama governor who ran for president in 1968? Was a staunch opponent of integration.
George C. Wallace?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Gen. Charles Q. Brown
Loving v. Virginia?
ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The name of Lyndon B. Johnsons programs targeting poverty
The Great Society
What does the 27th amendment do?
any law that changes the salary of members of Congress can only take effect after the next election of the House of Representatives
American politician, businessman, and lawyer who has been a United States senator from Utah since 2019. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election.
Mitt Romney